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Visit our winery surrounded by a 600 acre walnut orchard atop picturesque Adelaida Road.
Watch the day's winemaking activities from our open tasting room. Sustainably certified, our estate vineyards yield classic Pinot Noir, elegant Chardonnay, intense Cabernet Sauvignon, dry farmed Zinfandel, and avant-garde Rhône varietals.
A beautiful drive only minutes from downtown Paso Robles, feel free to bring a picnic!
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MANY PEOPLE HAVE ASKED FOR A HISTORY OF THE MADONNA INN, so with this brief story, we will attempt to tell you how it all began.
The first 12 rooms were completed December 24, 1958, and were given complementary for that night's stay to a very surprised group of travelers. An additional 28 rooms were quickly built, making a total of 40 rooms available to travelers.
Demand for public areas to handle the rooms encouraged us in April 1960 to start construction of the main inn, which was to eventually consist of the wine cellar, bakery, coffee shop, dining room, the cocktail lounge, banquet rooms, ladies' boutique, men's gift shop, and the gourmet shop.
One hundred ten unique rooms now exist, each decorated differently to suit many individual tastes...rock rooms, waterfall showers, rock fireplaces, European fixtures, and fine furnishings to name a few.
The Madonna Inn sits on approximately 2,200 acres and the large rocks used in the construction came from these surrounding acres. Some of the larger rocks weigh in excess of 200 tons each.
The leaded glass work throughout Madonna Inn and the large etched glass windows in the coffee shop, almost things of the past, were custom made for the Inn. The leaded glass inserts in the windowed area facing the large fireplace are of particular interest, since each insert illustrates one of the various Madonna enterprises: construction, lumber and cattle.
The hand-carved marble balustrade in the Gold Rush dining room came from the Hearst Castle. All copper and brass items were etched and/or shaped from original designs and fabricated right on the premises. The 28-foot gold tree fixture in the main dining room was made from electrical conduit left over from building projects as well as from left over remnants of copper.
Several wood carvers were brought in for the specialty work of hand carving the doors, beams, railings and the many other carved adornments you see at the Madonna Inn.
