About Beckmen Vineyards
Beckmen is Ballard Canyon's biodynamic standard-bearer: Tom Beckmen, a music-industry pioneer, and his son Steve planted Purisima Mountain Vineyard in the 1990s and converted it to biodynamically farmeds early, making its limestone-and-clay slopes one of California's great Rhone sites. Purisima Mountain Syrah and Grenache lead an estate lineup poured at the family's Los Olivos-area duck-pond property. Beckmen's high-elevation Purisima Mountain estate is a hilltop setting with views across the surrounding Ballard Canyon hills, a peaceful retreat for its biodynamic Rhone wines.
The wines pair mountain concentration with savory lift, and the Purisima designates rank among the state's most reliable Rhone values. Biodynamics before it was branding.