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 COVID-19 INFORMATION The tasting room is open Thursday through Monday from 10 am to 4 pm and Tuesday and Wednesday 10 am to 12:30 pm. Appointments are strongly encouraged. Walk-ins will be accommodated when possible. An appointment will be required for groups of 6 or more people. All tastings will be done outside, please plan and dress accordingly. Tastings will look very different from how they were back before COVID-19. Please bear with us. We will be observing the following requirements to keep everyone safe:
To schedule an appointment please use the link below: We are still open for curbside pick up and online ordering as well. Please order at the link below and schedule your appointment for pick up above. Please mention that you would like to pick up the wines in the “special instructions” and we will remove the shipping cost and have the wines ready for pick up at your appointment. If
you have any questions please feel free to contact us by phone
805-835-9117 or email vino@fratelliperata.com email: vino@fratelliperata.com
Gino was earning a master's degree in sociology at
Washington State
University and making wine in his dorm 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. 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.
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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. 
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. 
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.' 