KINGS CAREY
James Sparks has become a star of the California wine scene through his award-winning work at Liquid Farm, the renowned third-wave producer of Burgundian-style California Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Kings Carey is Sparks’ proprietary Santa Barbara County label crafting small-production wines in a minimalist, “keep it simple” style. Founded only in 2017, the aim is to produce “untypical wines of ‘typicity’…[which are] clean expressions of the fruit at hand” and are authentic representatives of California’s unique terroirs.
LIQUID FARM
In less than a decade, Liquid Farm has gone from Jeff and Nikki Nelson’s longtime dream to one of the most coveted and acclaimed of California’s Third Wave of wine producers. Winemaker James Sparks crafts Chardonnay and Pinot Noir bottlings that merge an old-world sensibility of high-acid, low-alcohol, minimal-intervention wines with the unique vinous bounty of Santa Barbara’s Santa Rita Hills AVA.