2024 Estate White

Name: 2024 Estate White
Brand: Ojai Mountain
Price: 75.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Apple|Stone Fruit|Fresh

Floral and tropical on the nose, the most vibrant of the set — citrus zest, green pineapple, lychee, and a saline finish that grips and lingers. Roussanne holds the tension without softening it. Wine Enthusiast Cellar Selection. Drink now–2034.

Tasting Notes Pdf.

About This Release

VARIETALS

46% Grenache Blanc, 43% Picpoul, 11% Roussanne

CHEMISTRY

Alcohol: 13.1% | pH: 3.14 | TA: 7.8 | Malic Acid: 2.71

WINE CHARACTERISTICS

Body

Medium-Bodied

Sweetness

Dry

Acidity

Bright Acidity

Fruitiness

Balanced Fruit

WINEMAKER'S NOTE

The 2024 Estate White opens with mango, white flower, and peach pit — generous and aromatic — before the palate arrives with precision. Picpoul's acidity cuts through cleanly; lychee, citrus zest, and green pineapple build across a taut, focused frame that finishes saline with real length. Carries the most tension and brightness of any vintage, without sacrificing balance. Billy Norris at Vinous noted its “linearity and focus”; Wine Advocate praised its “elastic tension and invigorating acidity.” Wine Enthusiast awarded Cellar Selection. Drink now–2034.

92 points Vinous

92 points Wine Advocate

91 points Wine Enthusiast

Vinous

The 2024 White Blend is 46% Grenache Blanc, 43% Picpoul and 11% Roussanne. It resonates with intense tropicality, heady florals and piney overtones, almost tricking you into thinking it’s going to be an oily, opulent wine (as it has been in past vintages). But then a karate kick of malic, green-pineapple-like acidity hits the palate with laser-like precision. The 2024 is a wine of linearity and focus that leaves your mouth literally dripping. This really pushes the envelope of acidity, but it holds onto balance through the chalky finish. It's a wild ride, that's for sure.”

Billy Norris

Wine Advocate

The 2024 Estate White is round yet lifted on the nose, offering up aromas of white flower and peach pit, with a touch of iodine and herbal, alpine notes after some time in the glass. On the palate, it combines a dense texture with elastic tension and invigorating acidity, culminating in a fresh, saline-driven finish propelled by beaming citrus tones. It's a blend of 46% Grenache Blanc, 43% Picpoul and 11% Roussanne that matured for six months in neutral barrique.”

Matthew Luczy

Wine Enthusiast

Cellar Selection

Fruity aromas of apple and mango prove juicy on the nose of this wine from a vineyard located high above Ojai and the rest of Ventura County. There’s a sizzle of acidity to the palate, where delicate pear flesh and lychee flavors join a light paraffin note. This has the bones to age a while. Drink now–2034. Cellar Selection.”

Matt Kettmann

Production

154 cases 100% estate

Vinification

Whole cluster pressed

Aging Process

Fermented and aged for 6 months in 100% neutral French oak barriques.

Key Dates

Harvested: September 3, 2024 Bottled: March 10, 2025 Released: August 2025

Winemaker

Erich Bradley

Winemaking Philosophy

We farm biodynamically at high elevation and intervene minimally in the cellar. The goal isn't to make wine—it's to let the vineyard speak for itself.

Learn About Winemaking Approach

Key Principles

Vineyard health and timing over cellar correction
Native fermentation with close monitoring
Minimal additives (sulfur only, used sparingly)
Vintage variation as a feature, not a flaw
Wines built for the table with food compatibility

Winemaking Process

Our process emphasizes native yeast fermentation, minimal additives, and selective use of neutral French oak. We monitor closely but intervene sparingly, allowing vintage character and site expression to shine through. The result is transparent, food-friendly wines with natural acidity and layered complexity.

PAIRING

Fresh oysters with yuzu shallot mignonette; crudo with citrus and olive oil; chilled Dungeness crab with lemon and herbs; shaved fennel, sea salt, and good olive oil.

The wine’s taut acidity and saline minerality mirror ocean brine, while mountain herbs and citrus lift keep raw and delicately dressed preparations precise and crystalline.

Try Our Suggested Recipe

This wine was made for the raw bar. Try it with our oysters on the half shell with yuzu shallot mignonette—bright citrus sharpens the brine while the wine’s minerality and tension carry the finish clean and long.

Get The Recipe

The origin of the vintage

Unique Ojai Mountain Terroir

Ojai Mountain rises at 3,000 feet, just 10 miles from the Pacific Ocean. The valley's rare east-west orientation opens a direct corridor for marine air, allowing coastal winds to moderate heat and slow ripening. Ancient Monterey shale—fractured rock from a prehistoric seabed—drains quickly and forces shallow rooting, naturally limiting vigor and berry size. Farmed organically, the site produces wines of tension and clarity rather than broad ripeness. Elevation, wind, and ocean influence create a cool-climate profile uncommon this far south in California, yielding concentrated flavors with firm structure and lift.

Learn About Our Terroir

The 2024 vintage

A late-summer heatwave created a challenging season. White blocks were picked just ahead of the heat. The resulting white sits between vintages in style, more lifted and taut than 2022, yet more floral and layered than the racy 2021. Reds came in two stages. Tempranillo and Syrah were harvested in early September during the heat spike, with sugars climbing quickly and picking moving faster than usual. Grenache and Mourvèdre followed later; after recovering from heat stress, the vines completed ripening nearly a month later, bringing balance and depth to the later lots.

Read the Full Vintage Story