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Chris and Kathleen (Barnato) Whitcraft started WhitcraftWinery in 1985. Chris hosted a local wine radio program in Santa Barbara County for more than ten years and learned his craft from some of the best winemakers in California - Joe Heitz (Heitz Cellars), Dick Graff (Founded Chalone Winery and its AVA), and Burt Williams (Williams Selyem & Morning Dew Ranch) to name a few. What began as a hobby grew into both a passion and a lifestyle, the commitment to which is present to this day in every bottle of their wine. This passion for wine was passed on to their children, Drake and Alyssa. While Chris passed in 2014, Drake continues to carry on the tradition of excellent winemaking within the Whitcraft family, with a goal to make balanced Central Coast wine of purity, honesty, and finesse.

Drake makes wine using the same old school techniques his dad used (hand-harvesting, foot-pressing etc, no added enzymes or coloration), these minimal interventionist approach makes wine that speaks for itself. The use of whole cluster fermentation is prominent in the wines, and they wines are never subject to pump over and racking, with each bottle hand filled and hand corked, and the wines finally receives just enough SO2 to stabilize it. The resulting wines are clean and impeccably balanced, and represent a cross section of the emerging class of site-specific wines coming out of Central Coast California today.

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New Release (Jan 2023)

2019 Whitcraft La Rinconada Vineyard Chardonnay 

2020 Whitcraft Zotovich Vineyard Chardonnay 

2020 Whitcraft Tinaquiac Vineyard Chardonnay 

2021 Whitcraft Pence Ranch Gamay Noir 

2020 Whitcraft La Lie Fine Pinot Noir

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