El Pomar Vineyards

J. Lohr’s Shotwell and Creston Vineyards are located across the road from one another in the El Pomar District sub-appellation of Paso Robles. The climate here is a moderate Region II on the Winkler heat accumulation scale, characterizing it as a fairly cool location for late-ripening Bordeaux varieties. These tightly spaced cordon-trained, spur-pruned vineyards are laid out with an 8’ by 4’ vine spacing; they were planted on north-facing slopes of calcareous Linne-Calodo soil in 2015. The steep slopes at these locations required that the row direction for planting follow the grade of each block in order for our equipment to navigate the steep terrain.