Beckman Vineyards is a Demeter-certified estate vineyard and winery located in the Ballard Canyon AVA in Santa Barbara County and within California’s blanket Central Coast AVA.

Owners: Steve Beckman and family.

Estate vineyards, wine production: 2018 50 hectares (125 acres) of Demeter Biodynamic vineyards producing 12,000 cases of out of 20,000 cases total (Source: IBWC 2018).

Purisima Mountain Vineyard: Planted with Viognier, Grenache Noir and Syrah.

Biodynamic certification: 2009 First vintage with full Demeter Biodynamic certification for the vineyards. | 2018 Still certified Biodynamic.

White wines

Viognier, Purisima Mountain Vineyard: Limestone soils. | 2016 325 cases. Picked early. Lovely freshness (IBWC 2018).

Red wines

Grenache noir, Purisima Mountain Vineyard Block Eight: Ungrafted vines planted from 2004. Biodynamic from the start. | 2016 4000 cases. Nice firm texture to the tannins with ripe but not over-ripe fruit, VG (IBWC 2018).

Syrah, Purisima Mountain Vineyard: 2015 850 cases. Moreish structure, bright fruit, VG ( IBWC 2018).

Contact

Beckmen Vineyards

2670 Ontiveros Road

Los Olivos

CA 93441, United States

Website: www.beckmenvineyards.com

Bibliography

International Biodynamic Wine Conference, San Francisco 6-7th May 2018.