Margerum Estate Vineyard sign from the air

Vineyards

Margerum sources fruit from many of Santa Barbara County’s top vineyards and terroirs — Rhône varietals from our own estate in the Los Olivos District, Sauvignon Blanc from Happy Canyon, and, for Barden, exclusively from the Sta. Rita Hills.

The Margerum Estate Vineyard, on Alamo Pintado Road in the Los Olivos District AVA, was established in 2016: eighteen acres planted to ten red and white Rhône varietals, with five Syrah clones on the steep hillsides. It is farmed organically and sustainably.

Beyond the estate, we work with growers from the cool eastern end of the Santa Ynez Valley — Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara, home of our Sybarite Sauvignon Blanc — to the cold vineyards of the Sta. Rita Hills toward the western end of the valley, where Barden’s Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are grown.

Every wine on this site names the vineyards in its blend.

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The hillside at Margerum Estate Vineyard

Margerum Estate Vineyard

Los Olivos District AVA. Eighteen acres of ten Rhône varieties — Syrah, Grenache, Mourvèdre, Cinsault, Viognier and Picpoul among them — on the hills above Alamo Pintado Road: the home of the Estate Syrah, Cinsault, Grenache, Mourvèdre, Viognier and Über Blanc.

Happy Canyon at dawn

Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara

The warm eastern end of the Santa Ynez Valley, where the mornings start in fog: Sauvignon Blanc for Sybarite and the Bordeaux varieties.

John Sebastiano Vineyard

Sta. Rita Hills

Marine soils and refrigerated sunlight on the cold western edge of the valley. Barden sources Chardonnay and Pinot Noir here exclusively — Sanford & Benedict, Radian, Bentrock and John Sebastiano among them.

Night harvest of Syrah at Margerum Estate Vineyard

Harvest

We pick at night, when the fruit is cold, and the reds ferment in small open-top fermenters, punched down by hand.