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Brick Barn Wine Estate

AVA · Santa Ynez Valley

Further reading: Producer's own site

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Editorial profile

Brick Barn Wine Estate sits on a 35-acre planted portion of a historic ~1,100-acre ranch in Buellton, in the Santa Ynez Valley, first assembled by Norman and Kathleen Williams starting in 1968 as an Arabian horse farm — the estate's namesake brick barn was built by an Italian stonemason for that earlier use.

Winemaker Adrian Bolshoi farms sandy loam alluvial soils ten miles from the Pacific, and the portfolio leans Rhône and Burgundy: Syrah (co-fermented with Viognier in Côte-Rôtie style), Grenache, a Rhône blend, Pinot Noir off four estate clones, and aromatic whites — Viognier, Albariño, Vermentino — plus an estate Blanc de Blancs sparkling wine. A top Syrah selection is bottled separately under the Fatalist tier.

Facts read from brickbarnwineestate.com

What's on file

Address

795 W HWY 246

Where it's registered

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  • Principal795 W HWY 246, BUELLTON

The ground it sits on

AVA · Santa Ynez Valley

6.5

pH, 1:1 water

13.8cm

, whole profile

91cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 160 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.5
2.9%
22.5%
available water
13.8cm
depth to restriction
91cm

Dominant

  • 15.6%
  • 6.8%
  • 6.1%
  • 6.0%
  • 4.6%

160 map units · soil described over 91.5% of the region’s area · 7.2% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 82% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Wines

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.