Lone Madrone

A lone Madrone stands atop a hill between the mountain and the sea in west Paso Robles, presiding over the rugged vineyard that started it all for brother and sister Neil Collins and Jackie Meisinger. The Lone Madrone wine label was founded in 1996 with the premier goal of producing distinctive wines exclusively from vineyards in the rugged limestone hills of west Paso Robles. Growing slowly yet steadily since then, the focus has become largely on vineyards that are dry farmed and head trained, which winemaker Neil Collins believes to be “the purest expression of the unparalleled terroir of west Paso.” Neil also feels that when you begin with grapes from vineyards of this quality in these outrageous soils it only makes sense to “let them sing for themselves without being masked by our hand.” To this end, all the wines are fermented with native yeasts and native malolactic bacteria, and then aged in predominantly neutral barrels. Lone Madrone wines are unique not only because of where they were grown, but due to the influence of Neil’s winemaking style. We produce some rare single varietal wines, however the majority of Lone Madrone wines are extraordinary blends where you distinguish Neil’s unique slant formed over years of tasting and blending west side Paso Robles wines. The wines of Lone Madrone are all unique and yet characteristically balanced with structure and finesse.