2022 Whitcraft Pinot Noir Pence Ranch Sta Rita Hills

Celebrating 40 years of making wine in the Santa Barbara community, Whitcraft Winery is dedicated to producing the highest quality wines with the least amount of intervention. Their signature varietals are Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah while also producing a variety of other unique, handcrafted wines.

Founded in 1985 by Chris and Kathleen Whitcraft, Whitcraft Winery has long been known for its small-lot, terroir-driven wines crafted with minimal intervention. Today, Drake Whitcraft continues the family’s legacy, focusing on precision, purity, and site expression. With deep ties to Santa Barbara County and relationships with iconic vineyard sites, the winery produces wines that speak authentically of their origins.

This minimal-intervention Pinot Noir highlights the vineyard nuance of Pence Ranch, in the Sta. Rita Hills. Fermented with native yeasts and aged in neutral oak, it shows precision, structure, and aromatic complexity. A pure expression of a distinctive Pinot Noir clone in a top coastal site.