Booker Vineyard

Booker Vineyard is a wine producer in Willow Creek District near the border of Templeton Gap District in Paso Robles. It makes a number of wines from Rhône Valley varieties with a focus on the red grapes Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre.

The estate covers roughly 30 hectares (72 acres) southwest of the city of Paso Robles. It was established in 2001 by Eric and Lisa Jensen who bought a section of property left from the Booker brothers' farm – a large tract of land that was first cultivated by local philanthropists Claude and Dick Booker in the 1920s. The Jensens started as growers supplying local winemakers and earned a reputation for the quality of their grapes. They sold to notable Paso Robles producers including Saxum Vineyards (who make the Booker Vineyard Red) and L'Aventure, before deciding to vinify their own fruit from 2005. Booker makes its wine entirely from estate-grown fruit but continues to sell to other producers as well.

Booker farms mostly red Rhône varieties with more than half the vineyard planted to Syrah. However, other varieties such as Tempranillo are planted in small quantities along with some white Rhône grapes like Roussanne, Viognier and Marsanne used in Booker's lone white bottling. Production is limited to roughly 4500 cases annually, most of which is sold through a mailing list.