So Far Out Flood Light Snow Pet-Nat 2024

So Far Out is a winery based in Los Alamos, Santa Barbara County, with a tasting room at Martian Ranch. It was founded as a joint venture between three people with complementary expertise across California's wine industry: Andrew Jones, Mike Testa, and Jamil Williams.

Andrew Jones is the founder of Field Recordings, an acclaimed natural wine label based in Paso Robles known for working with unusual varieties and minimal-intervention production across the Central Coast. Jones started making wine in his attic at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and has been a consistent presence on the forward edge of California natural wine. In his professional life he works as a nursery fieldman, planning and planting vineyards across the state, which gives him an unusual perspective on what Santa Barbara County's soils and climate can support.

Mike Testa is a fifth-generation farmer from Santa Maria who built his career in wine at E&J Gallo before returning to Santa Barbara County and becoming a partner at Coastal Vineyard Care Associates, the largest vineyard management firm in the county. Through this role, Testa has spent years planting and tending unusual varieties — Mondeuse, Marselan, Tibouren, Clairette Blanche, and others — across Santa Barbara's best sites, often persuading vineyard owners to embrace diversity beyond the standard commercial varieties. His organic farming emphasis and personal properties are the backbone of So Far Out's fruit sourcing.

Jamil Williams rounds out the team with deep experience in wine retail and distribution, having worked at the iconic Silverlake Wine in Los Angeles and with importer Amy Atwood Selections. So Far Out's mission is clearly stated: 100% organic, 100% Santa Barbara County, and accessible to all. Every wine in the range comes from certified organic fruit.

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Santa Barbara County sits at the southern end of California's Central Coast, roughly 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Unlike most of California's major wine regions, which run north-south parallel to the Pacific, the Santa Ynez and Santa Maria river valleys in Santa Barbara County run east-west — directly channelling cool Pacific air, fog, and afternoon breezes deep into the interior. This transverse orientation is the defining feature of Santa Barbara County viticulture and gives the region its unusually cool growing conditions relative to its latitude.

Los Alamos, where the grapes for the So Far Out Flood Light Snow Pet-Nat are grown, sits in the eastern section of the Santa Ynez Valley AVA, at the junction between the windier, cooler western end of the valley and the warmer, more sheltered interior. The Los Alamos area has developed a strong identity in California's natural wine scene over the past decade, with a cluster of small wineries, tasting rooms, and growers focused on organically farmed, non-mainstream varieties. Mike Testa's vineyard management work through Coastal Vineyard Care Associates has been central to introducing unusual Italian, French, and Spanish varieties to this terrain — including Mondeuse, Clairette Blanche, Marselan, and others.

The soils around Los Alamos are predominantly sandy loam and diatomaceous earth, naturally low in fertility and well-draining. These conditions impose stress on vines, naturally limiting yields and concentrating flavour without irrigation pressure. The marine-influenced climate produces grapes with high natural acidity and relatively low sugar accumulation, making the area well suited to aromatic white varieties and lighter-framed reds, as well as naturally sparkling wines where freshness is a priority. Santa Barbara County has become one of California's most experimental and organically progressive wine zones, with a particularly strong pét-nat and natural wine scene centred around Los Alamos.