![]() ![]() ![]() Howie Steinbeck and his wife Bev (Jespersen) were high school sweethearts who raised four children on the Ernst/Steinbeck ranch in Paso Robles. Today four generations live and work the ranch together, growing premium grapes and making wine under the Steinbeck label. Frank and his wife, Rosie, passed the ranch on to their daughter Hazel Ernst Steinbeck who then passed it on to her son Howie Steinbeck. ![]() William’s son Frank purchased the ranch on Union Road. The twin brothers became famous for their grape varieties and their fine wines in the community of Creston, located east of Paso Robles. The first generations arrived in 18, William and John Ernst and their families from Geneseo, Illinois, attracted to the climate and rolling hills where orchards of deciduous fruit and vineyards were planted. ![]() His daughter Cindy, fifth-generation, founded the Steinbeck Winery on the old Ernst ranch, purchased by her great grandfather in 1921. Harold (Howie) Steinbeck, son of Hazel Ernst Steinbeck, is the fourth of seven generations to farm grapes in Paso Robles. ![]()
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