Lasorda Family Wines is a family endeavor founded by Baseball Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda. Though his reputation and fame was built around the game of baseball, Tommy has always had a special love for wine that stemmed from his father and the family’s Italian roots. Our journey began in 2016 when we teamed up with Paso Robles winemaker Terry Culton to introduce our first vintage of Lasorda. In the years since we have built a portfolio of small production wines that embraces the best of California’s Central Coast.
The portfolio includes Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Super Tuscan harvested from the rolling vineyards of Paso Robles. As a family owned and operated winery, Lasorda Family Wines embodies Tommy’s fearless spirit and passion, and crafts its wines to honor and preserve his legacy as baseball’s true ambassador.
This wine is rooted in the beautiful Paso Robles Appellation. Close to the ocean (only 6 miles), which creates a gorgeous cooling effect in the evening, Paso Robles’ terroir is similar to many parts of the Mediterranean wine regions where the breeze off of the water cools the wine at night. This gives you a distinct profile of flavors and dynamically subtle hints of a whole range of aromas, making really complex but also really approachable wines. Cabs from Paso Robles get the benefit of all the sugars and hardiness created from Paso’s hot summer days and all the complexity of a cooler climate wine. They’re often perfect for laying down and every vintage will consistently surprise you whenever you open another bottle of the same year as time goes on.
Terry Culton is the winemaker for both Eighty-One and Lasorda Family Wines. With over 20 years of winemaking experience in California’s central coast wineries as well as in Oregon, he has a broad range of winemaking prowess and a proven record of producing highly sought-after wines with consistent 90+ ratings.
Since 2000, Terry has held successive winemaker positions at Calera Wine Co., Adelaida Cellars, Peachy Canyon, and Le Vigne Winery. Regarded as a “top-flight winemaker” by writer Robert Parker of The Wine Advocate, Terry continues to bring the best our industry has to offer.