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The Beckmen Family
Beckmen Vineyards began after Tom and Judy Beckmen left their innovative electronic music company Roland Corp, US to become pioneers of California wine. With the youngest son Steve as Winemaker, and oldest son Jeff joining as Director of Sales later, Beckmen Vineyards is a family owned and operated winery. Since 1994, we’ve established ourselves as a benchmark Santa Barbara County grower and producer. Our consistent quality vintage after vintage keeps us a favorite of critics, tastemakers, and collectors. Our wines have filled the cellars and tables of the country’s finest restaurants and houses (including the White House).
Beckmen wines are crafted almost exclusively from our two vineyards, the Thomas and Judith Beckmen Estate Vineyard in Los Olivos District AVA and Purisima Mountain Vineyard in Ballard Canyon AVA. Farming over 150 acres of vines, we view every vintage as another opportunity to grow our legacy as a world-class winery by creating wines that future generations will enjoy. Currently, we’re proud to be hosting wine lovers seven days a week, providing unforgettable experiences at our beautiful winery and tasting room in the Santa Ynez Valley.
As our name implies, Beckmen Vineyards consists of two separate vineyards, each with varying soils and climates. On the western side of Ballard Canyon AVA lies our acclaimed 365 acre (125 acres planted), certified Biodynamic Purisima Mountain Vineyard. With peaks reaching 1,150 feet, Purisima Mountain is a winemaker’s dream, boasting almost 500 feet of elevation change with multiple exposures across its slopes.
Purisima Mountain Vineyard is home to a diversity of grape varieties, including Sauvignon Blanc, Grenache Blanc, Viognier, and Chardonnay, as well as Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre, and Counoise. The most unique feature of the site is its limestone subsoil. Limestone soils aren’t commonly found in California, mostly in corners of the Central Coast. These soils are prized in regions like Champagne, Burgundy, and the Southern Rhône Valley for producing wines with intense flavors, great acidity, and sturdy structure.
Wine can only be as great as the vineyard where it begins, and the vineyards that we farm are truly what separate us from other wineries.
The Thomas and Judith Beckmen Estate Vineyard is 40 acres (25 planted) of rolling hills situated on the western border of the Los Olivos District, several miles east of Purisima Mountain. Mostly planted to Cabernet Sauvignon with small amounts of Grenache, Mourvedre, Merlot, and Syrah, this vineyard has a slightly warmer climate and a gravelly, well-drained soil which allows us to craft wines with a different profile. Tending vines from dormancy through harvest since 1994, we’ve discovered, row by row, the unique soil and microclimate that best hosts each grape variety, ensuring every block in the vineyard consistently produces the highest quality fruit possible. We can utilize each of our vineyards’ strengths to balance and complement each other when blended into wines like Cuvee le Bec or allow them to express their individual personalities in our range of single vineyard wines.