Wines
Tasting Location
Foxen Tasting Room
The Foxen tasting rooms offers the best of both worlds, in every way. As you meander down the famed Foxen Canyon Wine Trail you will find yourself unconcerned with the outside world and instead, captured by the old romanticism that comes with going wine tasting. The spellbinding scenery of oak tree freckled, rolling hills that, depending on the time of the year, can be a bright visionary delight of green with patches of yellow and purple wildflowers in the springtime, or a golden bronzed, sepia tint in the summer and early fall as the sun marks is path, and emits long cast shadows upon the hillsides.
After the experience of the enchanting, drive you’ll discover a dramatic due of tasting rooms contrasting one another completely. The old Foxen tasting room is a small shed on the side of the road which at one point in time was a blacksmith shop and is host to Bordeaux and Cal-Ital style wines. The newer facility is a large, state of the art, solar powered tasting room that hosts the traditional Burgundian style wines that Foxen earned its high profile name from.
Even though there is a vast difference between the two tasting rooms there is a defining commonality within the wines at either location that brings them stylistically into unison: they are all done in a traditional, nuanced style. Winemaker Bill Wathen believes that the best wines are made from the best quality of fruit and practices a delicate handling of the grapes, does not fine or filter his wines and let’s the earthy berries speak for themselves. He is best known for his soft straw-berry Burgundian style beauty, Santa Maria Valley Pinot Noir as well as his rich Bordeaux fashioned Cabernet Sauvignon‘7200’ which he barrel ages in new oak giving it the umph to stand up to the real thing.
