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Dec 21, 2020 In: Wine 101 Food & Dining Entertainment

Announcing Virtual Custom Wine Tastings

After receiv­ing great feed­back on our Zoom Futures tast­ings, we have decid­ed to con­tin­ue with an expand­ed vir­tu­al tast­ing pro­gram year-round. While we can­not 100% repli­cate the expe­ri­ence of vis­it­ing our prop­er­ty in Los Olivos, we have designed a per­son­al­ly curat­ed tast­ing pro­gram that brings the images of our vine­yards and win­ery into your home.

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Sep 1, 2020 In: Wine 101 Food & Dining Entertainment

Futures Begins: Experience our Futures Program at Home

Every fall for the last decade and a half, we have opened our cel­lar doors for a rare oppor­tu­ni­ty to taste a lim­it­ed selec­tion of our small pro­duc­tion red wines still aging in oak bar­rels dur­ing our annu­al Futures pro­gram. Due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, we have decid­ed to change the Futures tast­ing pro­gram. This year, the six Futures wines will be avail­able in a tast­ing kit which can be deliv­ered to the 35 states where we cur­rent­ly ship.

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Jul 3, 2020 In: Wine 101 Food & Dining Entertainment

Tasting Room Reopening

We are very excit­ed to announce the reopen­ing of our tast­ing room on July 10, 2020! In order to pro­vide a safe and excel­lent expe­ri­ence, we will be accept­ing cus­tomers by reser­va­tion only and ask­ing guests to fol­low our tast­ing room and gaze­bo rules while vis­it­ing our estate. 

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May 1, 2020 In: Wine 101 Entertainment

Just Added: Biodynamic Calendar Symbol

The Bio­dy­nam­ic Cal­en­dar allows farm­ers to proac­tive­ly focus their work on the part of the plant that is most respon­sive on a day to day basis. The cal­en­dar breaks down each day as a fruit, flower, leaf, or root day, the four main com­po­nents of a plant. We have added a sym­bol to the top of our web­site to eas­i­ly show you the type of day.

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Apr 15, 2020 In: Press Entertainment

Food & Wine Includes Our Grenache for Earth Day

We’re excit­ed to share that Food & Wine just includ­ed our 2017 PMV Grenache in their rec­om­men­da­tions for the top 10 wines to drink from eco-friend­ly and sus­tain­able winer­ies this Earth Day.

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Mar 18, 2020 In: Wine 101 Entertainment

Updated Vineyard Maps

Beck­men Vine­yards con­sists of two sep­a­rate vine­yards with dra­mat­i­call­y dif­fer­ent soils and cli­mates. We have cre­at­ed two maps of each of our vine­yards to help our cus­tomers bet­ter under­stand how our wines were craft­ed. One ver­sion of the maps shows the var­i­ous plant­i­ngs of vari­etal clones and root­stocks, the oth­er ver­sion lists the final wine the grapes are sourced for. These maps were just updat­ed in Feb­ru­ary 2020.

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Apr 16, 2019 In: Press Food & Dining Entertainment

Honest Cooking: Wines Perfect for Every Type of Easter Dish

We were hon­ored when Hon­est Cook­ing​’s Annelise Mcau­li­ffe tast­ed and reviewed our new release 2018 Purisi­ma Moun­tain Vine­yard Grenache Rosé for her East­er food and wine pair­ing arti­cle. Read on to dis­cov­er which dish was paired with our rosé!

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Mar 18, 2016 In: Press Entertainment

2016 Santa Barbara Wine Auction Breaks Records

Beck­men Vine­yards was proud to be a return­ing spon­sor of the San­ta Bar­bara Vint­ners Foundation’s 2016 San­ta Bar­bara Wine Auc­tion, held at the stun­ning Bacara Resort & Spa on Sat­ur­day, March 12, 2016. Although the final num­ber has not yet been tal­lied, the Auc­tion sur­passed the pre­vi­ous record of $1.1 mil­lion raised in 2014 for Direct Relief, an …

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Aug 31, 2015 In: Entertainment

Wine Tasting in Los Olivos

Named after a ranch of 5,000 olive trees, Los Olivos is a his­toric and quaint town locat­ed just 45 min­utes north of San­ta Bar­bara in the acclaimed San­ta Ynez Val­ley. Los Olivos was orig­i­nal­ly a stop on the stage­coach route that ran from San Fran­cis­co to San Diego, and grew in size when the Pacific …

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