Wine and Jazz Magazine

Save Gas Money, Spend it on Wine

Part of the fun when visiting wine country is taking the drive through scenic country roads past vineyards, barns and farmland. If your destination is in a remote corner of wine country, when sometimes even your GPS can’t help you, your arrival at the tasting room can even bring on a euphoric feeling of accomplishment.

But as many wine country vacationers know, there are days when you just want to stay out of the car, remain close to downtown, maybe do your own walking tour of the village and still experience a sampling of wines from the region.

Well, if your next wine vacation plans to happen to include Paso Robles wine country on the Central Coast of California, plan a day for stopping at the new Mertiage Wine Tasting Lounge. If offers the convenience of tasting multiple Paso Robles wineries in one easy-to-find centrally located storefront across the street from the main city park.

Meritage Wine Lounge, a unique wine bar and lounge, is open for business where shops, restaurants, bars and various tasting rooms surround the quaint city plaza that includes a park, playground and gazebo stage. Meritage features a contemporary and comfortable room overlooking the park, with soft lighting, warm colors and a tasting bar on the one side opposite large couches arranged around low tables for easy conversation and wine sipping. Unlike typical wines bars, Meritage offers guests the opportunity to taste wines from ten different wineries, each represented at the bar by its own personnel eager to share knowledge about the wines. You get ten local wineries all within about ten giant steps of each other. It’s a cool spot to hold an intimate event, party or just a private one-on-one meeting to conduct business. It has free Wi-Fi Internet, three flat screen TVs throughout the room and a full menu to allow some fun with wine and food pairing. Check it out. No map necessary!