Harmony Cellars

About the winery

Harmony Cellars is a small family winery on a hill above Harmony, a tiny town just off Highway 1 on the Central Coast^4,5. Chuck and Kim Mulligan founded it in 1989². It stands on land that has been in Kim's family for four generations, part of the holdings of her great-grandfather Giacomo Barlogio, one of the founders of the old creamery cooperative in Harmony².

Chuck studied enology at Fresno State and worked as assistant winemaker at Estrella in Paso Robles, then as a consultant to small local wineries³. The winery's 1998 history page told how a 1981 visit to Zaca Mesa Winery started the couple thinking about a winery of their own, and how the first Harmony Cellars wine, 2,000 cases, was made in rented space while the tasting room was in the old creamery building in town⁵. The Mulligans then built their own winery on the family land: its first vintage was 1993, by that 1998 page⁵, while a June 2026 article dates the building's opening to 1994⁴.

Chuck buys his grapes from Central Coast growers, from Monterey to Santa Margarita, because the soil at the winery doesn't suit vines^3,4. Production has grown to about 6,000 cases a year, almost all of it sold at the winery, through its club and online, according to the 2026 article⁴. In March 1998 the winery announced that its 1996 Chardonnay, which Chuck then called its flagship wine, had been named Best of Show white wine at the Monterey Wine Competition⁶.

Recipes from Harmony

• Soup or stew

  Cabernet Beef Stew

  First shared on Web Winery in 1999.

• Appetizer

  Chiles en Frio Rellenos de Camaron

  First shared on Web Winery in 1999. From a published cookbook; the page names the book.

• Main course

  Kumquat Mint Leg of Lamb

  First shared on Web Winery in 1999.

• Dessert

  Mulligan's Johannisberg Riesling Raisin Crepes

  First shared on Web Winery in 1999.

• Main course

  Shrimp and Scallops in Parmesan Cream Sauce

  First shared on Web Winery in 1999.

• Main course

  Vegetable Pizza with Goat Cheese

  First shared on Web Winery in 1999.

All 7 recipes from Harmony

In the press

• Publication not recorded, April 2000, “Harmony Cellars Winery in Paso Robles earns 2 medals in 2000 Pacific Rim Internatinal Wine Competition”

  Press archive entry Wayback Machine copy