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Springtime in the Vineyard

Spring­time is a beau­ti­ful sea­son on our fam­i­ly’s two vine­yards, as our vines wake up from their win­ter dor­man­cy and bud­break occurs. Dis­cov­er what we’re up to this time of year, both inside our win­ery and across our 150 acres of grapevines.

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Mar 30, 2021

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Beckmen 2018 syv sangiovese

Feb 25, 2021

Sangiovese Returns to our Portfolio After 25 Years

After 25 years, we are thrilled to bring San­giovese back into our port­fo­lio with the very lim­it­ed release of the 2018 San­ta Ynez Val­ley San­giovese. Only 225 cas­es were pro­duced, and since we last bot­tled this wine back in 1996, you’ll have to act fast to enjoy this wine. Only $24 per bot­tle when pur­chased as a case special.

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Beckmen 2021 q1 wines

Feb 17, 2021

2021 Winter Wine Releases

Dis­cov­er more about the five new wines released to Wine Club mem­bers in Feb­ru­ary 2021: 2019 Purisi­ma Moun­tain Vine­yard Grenache Blanc, 2019 Cuvee le Bec, 2019 Estate Grenache, 2018 TLB, and 2018 EXP Aggregate. 

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Jan 29, 2021

Platinum Option Now Available

Cus­tomers and win­ery mem­bers can join our Plat­inum option and receive ground ship­ping includ­ed for every wine pur­chase, auto­mat­i­cal­ly. Nev­er wor­ry about the cost of ship­ping since your account will always pop­u­late with ship­ping includ­ed. Reg­is­tra­tion costs $75 and lasts for one year.

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Beckmen pre service wine

Jan 28, 2021

Tasting Room Reopening February 52021

We are very excit­ed to announce the reopen­ing of our tast­ing room on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 5. We will be open for out­door wine tast­ings and gaze­bo reser­va­tions from 11am — 6pm Fri­day — Sun­day, and Wednes­days for Wine Club mem­bers only. We will remain open for curb­side pick-up every day of the week.

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Beckmen bh 2018 grenache

Jan 5, 2021

Big Hands is Back!

We are excit­ed to announce that we are bring­ing back our val­ue label Big Hands this year with the release of the 2018 Big Hands San­ta Bar­bara Grenache. It has been five years since we have released a wine under our val­ue dri­ven label Big Hands. The most obvi­ous ques­tion is why haven’t any of these wines been pro­duced? To under­stand the answer to that ques­tion, we must first explain how our wines are crafted.

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Beckmen wine flight

Dec 21, 2020

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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Futures sample bottle

Sep 1, 2020

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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Beckmen wine searcher blog

Aug 29, 2020

PMV Syrah Included as One of America’s Best Value Wines

Wine-Searcher just released an arti­cle includ­ing our 2017 Purisi­ma Moun­tain Vine­yard Syrah as one of the best val­ue wines in Amer­i­ca! Our wine was the only wine list­ed that was craft­ed from 100% cer­ti­fied bio­dy­nam­ic grapes, and at only $36 a bot­tle, we could­n’t agree more with their recommendation. 

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Aug 7, 2020

Antonio Galloni’s August 2020 Vinous Ratings

Wine jour­nal­ist and crit­ic Anto­nio Gal­loni, of the online pub­li­ca­tion Vinous, rates and reviews a selec­tion of our new releas­es dur­ing his annu­al trip to San­ta Bar­bara wine country.

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Aug 4, 2020

Jeb Dunnuck’s 2020 Santa Barbara County Tasting

Col­orado based wine writer Jeb Dun­nuck tastes a selec­tion of our new releas­es dur­ing his annu­al wine tast­ing in San­ta Bar­bara County.

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Jul 3, 2020

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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Beckmen 1 NGREDIENT inagural release

Jun 1, 2020

Inaugural Release of 1NGREDIENT

1NGREDIENT wine rep­re­sents an evo­lu­tion that com­bines our past 25+ years of wine­grow­ing and wine­mak­ing knowl­edge with our pas­sion for the Bio­dy­nam­ic farm­ing prin­ci­ples. As its name implies, 1NGREDIENT is wine made from one ingre­di­ent, Bio­dy­nam­i­cal­ly cer­ti­fied wine grapes. Because there are no addi­tives or preser­v­a­tives uti­lized, this is our first wine which can be clas­si­fied as a nat­ur­al” wine in most circles.

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Beckmen 2020 q2 releases

May 12, 2020

2020 Spring Wine Releases

Dis­cov­er more about the five new wines released in May of 2020: 2018 SYV Chenin Blanc, 2018 PMV Grenache, 2018 PMV Syrah, 2018 PMV Clone #1 Syrah, and 2018 EXP PMV Whole Clus­ter Syrah.

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Beckmen bd calendar blog

May 1, 2020

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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