Alma Rosa Winery & Vineyards

Alma Rosa Winery & Vineyards is the most historically Sta. Rita Hills-appellation-founding and personally biodynamic-conviction-driven Pinot Noir and Chardonnay program in Santa Barbara County. Richard Sanford — who planted the Sanford & Benedict Vineyard in the western Santa Barbara County cold corridor in 1971 and thereby essentially discovered the Sta. Rita Hills as a world-class Pinot Noir growing environment decades before the Sta. Rita Hills AVA was formally designated in 2001 — established Alma Rosa in 2005 after selling his founding Sanford Winery and Sanford & Benedict estate to bring his most personal biodynamic farming conviction to a new estate chapter.

The name Alma Rosa — Spanish for 'rosy soul,' invoking the most warmly spirited and personally spiritually committed wine farming philosophy — declares Richard Sanford's founding conviction that the most individually meaningful and genuinely Sta. Rita Hills-character-expressive Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grows from the most personally biodynamically-conviction-committed and spiritually wine-farming-philosophically-named estate in the Buellton wind corridor.

The El Jabali and La Encantada Sta. Rita Hills single-vineyard expressions — along with the estate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the most biodynamically-certified and personally Richard-Sanford-Sta-Rita-Hills-appellation-founding-conviction estate — have earned Wine Advocate recognition at 92–96 points for the mineral, food-first, Pacific-wind-channeled Sta. Rita Hills character that Richard Sanford's most personally founding-era-Sta-Rita-Hills-discovery-conviction and biodynamic-soul-farming-philosophically-named appointment consistently delivers.