
Fall 2024 Wine Club Allocations are ready for pick up and shipped
out November 4th.
If you have not received your shipment you can update your
information with the Club Link.
Here's the Fall Club
Packet with notes and recipes
is
an appropriate name for this small winery and vineyard run by the
brothers
Gino and Joe Perata and their families. In Italian, Fratelli Perata
means
Perata Brothers. Brothers,
Gino and Joe Perata, rekindled the winemaking history of their father,
grandfather and great-uncle when they established their winery using
grapes
grown on their 31 acre vineyard. Sons of Italian immigrants,
Gino
and Joe learned winemaking at the knees of their father and
great-uncle
who produced hundreds of gallons of wine for family and friends while
living
in Camarillo located in Ventura County, California. Gino and Joe were
taught
from the very beginning about the need for hands-on work to produce top
quality wines.

Gino was earning a master's degree in sociology at
Washington State
University and making wine in his dorm room
when he met his wife, Carol. Carol grew up in the Seattle suburbs.
Following
graduation and marriage, the Peratas were lured away from the halls of
academia by a desire to return to Gino's agricultural roots.
Gino and Carol became familiar with the Paso Robles area
during travels
up and down the coast between Washington and Ventura County. In 1977,
with
brother Joe, they purchased the Arbor Road site of their
vineyard
and winery. After much consideration, the Peratas chose
this
hilltop site over others because of the sunny
climate cooled
by Pacific breezes.
The Peratas' initial plantings included
Zinfandel for Gino and
Joe's father who loved his 'Zingarella.' Their 31 acre
vineyard,
established in 1980, is completely hand-worked
and hand-harvested. Carol
says, 'our grapes are cultivated for small berry
size. This
produces less tonnage, but a higher skin to pulp ratio for rich
extracts
which give our wines a fuller flavor.'
From the beginning the Peratas followed the
philosophy of Gino
and Joe's father, who believed in stressing the plants to
produce
lower crop yields for the most intense fruit. "Buoni Amici"
means
"good friends" and Gino, Joe and Carol are the best of friends and
extend
that friendship to all those who visit the winery.

Now, Fratelli Perata, the Perata brothers, along with Gino's wife
Carol,
produce high quality estate wines highly prized for their intensity. We
hope you will enjoy them as much as we do.Their life is one of friends,
family and wine. This website will try to bring you the flavor of our
wines,
life and history. Come along with us on our journey.
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