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Welcome! When we are not busy in the vineyard, the winery or the Tasting Room, we enjoy cultivating our grove of apricots, tending our cactus collection, or enjoying the outbreak of spring ushering in a new vintage as seen from our iris garden with a dwarf peach in full bloom in the background

At a recent tasting, the Blackjack Ranch Reserve Chardonnay 1997 was enjoyed after ten years in the cellar. It was one of the most spectacular explosions of steely minerality and fruit most of us had ever tasted in a California Chardonnay. Served from a three liter Double Magnum, it was a reminder why this, the first wine we ever produced, was the Gold Medal winner at the Orange County California fair in 1998.

Fox News broadcast LIVE nationally from Blackjack Ranch on May 2, 2008. Five different segments were aired featuring reporter Jonathan Hunt apparently drinking heavily while doing a story about a crackdown on people drinking heavily. It cost us a gallon of cranberry juice and it was a riot.

Blackjack Ranch as seen from Alamo Pintado Road looking west. The Merlot of Billy Goat Hill rises in the background and is the largest vineyard block of hand cultivated vines in Santa Barbara County

	Figueroa Mountain as seen from Blackjack Ranch when winter comes to the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County.

We recently purchased a four seat Bobcat vineyard touring vehicle for entertaining our VIP customers. Your tour guides Alex and Angelica await the opportunity to show you around.

	Sunrise at Blackjack Ranch looking east toward Alamo Pintado Road from high atop the Billy Goat Hill Merlot

With deep gratitude for their service of our Country, Blackjack Ranch is pleased to have the opportunity to share barrel samples of our wines with distinguished members of our Military.

	The Blackjack Ranch Tasting Room has been seen nationwide on Fox News

Alex and Angelica Gonzalez with Roger and Asta on the back of the 1930 Chevy truck resting under a 450 year old oak tree in front of Blackjack Ranch along Alamo Pintado Road

	Roger's parents Charles and Arlene Wisted

Springtime at Blackjack Ranch brings blossoms to our fruit trees.

	We recently procured some of the finest stainless steel fermenters money can buy. These glistening tanks have everything including digital thermostats we can control from any computer in the world, the finest in racking ports, man doors, truncated tops and vents, and easily handle up to seven tons of reds for fermentation and maceration