vineyardBien Nacido
also: Bien Nacido Vineyards · Rancho Tepusquet
Eight hundred acres on the Santa Maria bench, planted in 1969 and farmed row by row for whoever buys the rows. Over 250 acres of it is pinot noir, and the vineyard's name appears on more labels than most wineries manage.
When the door opens
Nobody has published this one's days where this project could read them. That is a gap here, not a locked door — write ahead, and see the finder for the cellars that do publish.
The story Cited
Tomás Olivera took the Rancho Tepusquet grant from Governor Alvarado in 1837; Chumash had fished Tepusquet Creek long before that. Juan Pacífico Ontiveros built the adobe in 1857 and farmed grain, stock and wine grapes. The Millers bought in 1969, reunited two parcels of the grant and planted vines.
How it is done Cited
Blocks are sold by area rather than by the ton, so a winemaker who wants to crop hard is not arguing with a grower paid by weight. Some customers have bought the same rows for over twenty years and print the block on the label.
Today Cited
Also one of California's larger sources of certified budwood — a good deal of the state's chardonnay started as cuttings from here.
Facts
| country | United States |
|---|---|
| established | 1969 |
| soil | sand, chalk and marine loam |
| region | Santa Maria Valley, Santa Barbara County, California |
| where | 34.9200, -120.2500 (street) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Numbers somebody published
| Planted | 800 acres — Bien Nacido Vineyards stated as over 800 |
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| Pinot noir | 250 acres — Bien Nacido Vineyards stated as over 250 |
| Annual rainfall | 13 inches — Bien Nacido Vineyards stated as 12 to 14 |
Nothing in this table is estimated here. Where a figure is missing it is missing, and the row is not written.
Near here
Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.
- 0.9 km — Au Bon Climat cellar
- 1.1 km — Santa Maria Valley region
- 33.6 km — Sanford & Benedict vineyard
- 35 km — Sta. Rita Hills region
- 199.5 km — Santa Lucia Highlands region
- 209.1 km — Calera cellar
Its kin
Who points back
Sources
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.