Whitcraft Winery

Drake Whitcraft makes beautifully balanced, site-specific wines in his low-fi Santa Barbara winery. Growing up in Santa Barbara under the tutelage of his father, who started Whitcraft Winery in 1985, Drake has formed good relationships with some of the best vineyards in the Central Coast with a focus on the diverse terroir of Sta. Rita Hills. He makes all his wines in the same hands on, low-intervention way - describing himself as a wine shepherd more than a winemaker - above everything else Drake wants to make a naked representation of these exceptional vineyards year after year.