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Editorial profile
Alban Vineyards is a Central Coast winery founded by John Alban, who planted the first Roussanne in the United States and describes the estate as built around Rhône varieties — Viognier, Syrah, Grenache and Roussanne — after a formative encounter with Condrieu. Most bottlings are named for people or vineyard sites rather than grapes: Reva and Lorraine are single-vineyard Syrahs, Seymour's is a Syrah from Seymour's Vineyard (whose Grenache fruit becomes Pandora), The Mason is a Mourvedre-led estate blend from a small home vineyard, and Patrina gathers scattered blocks that fall outside the named sites. Viognier and Roussanne are also bottled as varietal wines.
Facts read from albanvineyards.com
What's on file
Address
8575 ORCUTT RD
Where it's registered
Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.
- Principal8575 ORCUTT RD, ARROYO GRANDE
The ground it sits on
Sub-AVA · Edna Valley
6.7
pH, 1:1 water
21.3cm
, whole profile
126cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 69 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 19.2%
- 14.1%
- 12.1%
- 10.4%
- 10.1%
69 map units · soil described over 96.8% of the region’s area · 2.3% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 70% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Wines
the wine that launched the winery
blend
97-100% Syrah with the balance Viognier
100% Syrah
from Seymour's Vineyard
Grenache fruit from Seymour's Vineyard
blend
predominantly Mourvedre, "home vineyard" wine
blend of scattered estate blocks not part of the named vineyards
9 of 9 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.