Stone, fig, and light
Estate wines from limestone soils and a kitchen garden around the tasting patio — unhurried, mineral, grown in white earth.
Chenin and Chardonnay on albariza-like calcareous soils; a little Syrah where the ridge warms.
The wines
Estate Chenin, Chardonnay, and a little Syrah — raised in limestone, bottled for the table rather than the cellar door speech.
Piedra Blanca
Our estate Chenin, picked from the white calcareous block behind the house. Quince, wet stone, a saline edge — bottled without makeup, meant for the patio as much as the cellar.
A house among the vines
Albariza House sits on a low limestone ridge in Ballard Canyon, with a kitchen garden wrapping the tasting patio — figs, olives, citrus, and the herbs we pick for the table.
We farm twenty-eight acres of white calcareous soil. The wines are estate-grown, native-fermented, and bottled with as little noise as we can manage. The garden is not a backdrop. It is how we cook for the people who come to taste.
Walk the EstateWhat the ridge gives us
Calcareous soils, a marine wind off the Pacific, and a garden that feeds the table. Four facts; the rest is in the glass.
- Soil White calcareous loam
- Wind Pacific marine afternoon
- Elevation 980 feet
- Pick Cool mornings, by hand
Recognized by the Press We Respect
Loved by Guests & Critics
White-soil Chenin with real nerve — the Santa Ynez wine I keep going back to.
Wine SpectatorTasting on that patio, figs overhead, is the quietest hour in wine country right now.
Guest reviewAlbariza has made restraint look like the most luxurious thing a California estate can do.
PunchA few letters a season
Release dates, harvest notes, and when the figs come in — nothing weekly, nothing loud.
The Garden List
An allocation for people who cook. Members receive the estate's smallest lots first, at member pricing, with a standing seat on the patio.
- First allocation of every release, including lots that never reach the public list
- Member pricing on every bottle, every day
- A tasting for you and two guests, each visit
- Harvest lunches in the garden — pick, then sit
Reserve a Tasting
Tastings are seated on the patio, six people at a table, whatever the garden is giving that week. Thursday through Sunday, by appointment.
Taste in the garden
1820 Alamo Pintado Road, Solvang, CA 93463
Thursday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm · Tastings by appointment
@albarizahouse
