PATAGONIA'S ERNESTO: Patagonia’s Ernesto is a magnificent light brown compact herdsire that improves every dam to her fullest potential. Before I purchased Ernesto, I bred numerous females to this dynamic male just to see what he could do. I discovered that I could take an average dam, breed her to Ernesto, and voila, he would produce a stunning offspring. This feat was proven when we had hundreds of the females assessed with their juvenile crias. Time and time again, the cria scored better than the dam so I knew I had something special going on with this male and one way to obtain improvement in the production of our breeding program. In many ways, Patagonia’s Ernesto has surpassed his one of a kind sire, Patagonia’s Lennox, and what Lennox has been able to achieve in his life-time. Ernesto’s dam, R&RR Irishea, is a light fawn from Ruth and Rodney Elvestad’s Canadian breeding program whose goal was to have lasting fine fleece, yet have the fleece to be the ultimate in density as well. Ruth operates Olds College in Canada working with fiber. Irishea is out of one of my very favorite males, CAVA Guivar Zorro, a true black import. Ernesto has multiple traits ranking in the top 5% EPDs in 2024. He has many good breeding years left and would love to have the opportunity to prove it! Ernesto’s Show Record shows for itself: JUDGE'S CHOICE, 7x CHAMPION & 5x GET OF SIRE RIBBONS Ernesto's first crias hit the show ring in 2012 and continue to perform! PATAGONIA'S EL CANTO DE CHILE - LF Male 8/5/11 (5x Champion & Numerous Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S BACCUS - TB Male 7/4/13 (3x Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S MANTECOL - MB Male 7/26/13 (3x Champion & Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S ENCHANTED LIGHT - LF Female 6/22/11 (2x Reserve Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) AUTUMNSUN'S MAJOR GENERAL - DRG Male 6/6/12 (2x Reserve Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S PERFECTION - DF Female 8/20/2013 (Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) ESTATES ERNESTO'S KEEP SAKE - DB Female 9/1/2013 (Color Champ & Blue Ribbon) LIBERTYS ALLEGIANCE - TB Female 8/12/2014 (2x Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons PATAGONIA'S FRANCO - MB Male 6/12/12 (Reserve Champ & Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S DELFINA - MB Female 10/13/12 (Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S REGALONA - MB Female 6/12/11 (Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S ADELA - LF Female 6/30/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S ARIELE - MF Female 7/10/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S SHONSHONE - MF Female 7/16/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S ARCTICA - WH Female 9/11/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA ESTATES AZTEC - LB Male 6/27/2015 (Blue Ribbon Winner)

PATAGONIA'S ALLEGRA Allegra is sired by Nishio, the 2004 All-American Herdsire of the Year and the 2007 Reserve All-American Herdsire of the Year. Nishio has an exquisite black fleece, which is extremely dense and full of high frequency crimp. Nishio's offspring have incredible fleeces and their achievements in the showring are impressive. Her paternal grandsire, El Padre is one of the top herd sires at Alpacas de la Patagonia, and is successfully passing on his extreme density to all of his offspring. El Padre has sired some of the nation's top studs in service, Kaspa and Nishio, who are also well known of their classy progeny. Allegra was awarded the Brown Color Champion banner and Blue ribbon (Fleece) at the 2008 AOBA National Alpaca Show. She also received Blue ribbons in halter class at the 2007 MAPACA Jubilee, 2006 AOBA National Alpaca Show, 2006 Buckeye Alpaca Show, and 2006 Alpacapalooza, as well as numerous other ribbons! Offspring: On 6/8/2009, Allegra gave birth to PATAGONIA'S CHIEF, a stunning true black male sired by the legendary multi-champion, Patagonia’s Lennox. Chief is a 4x champion and multiple blue ribbon winner who is now a true black top-sire on our ranch. On 8/20/2013, Allegra had PATAGONIA'S PERFECTION, a gorgeous dark fawn female sired by 8x champion, Patagonia’s Ernesto. Perfection won a Color Champion banner and blue ribbon at the 2014 CABA Classic, and another blue ribbon at the MAPACA Jubilee in 2014. On 8/1/2014, Allegra gave us PATAGONIA ESTATES ARTISAN, a beautiful dark fawn female also sired by multi-champion, Patagonia’s Ernesto. Artisan received a 4th Place ribbon (out of a class of 7) at her only show - the 2016 AOA National Show. On 9/8/2015, Allegra presented us with ESTATES GRACEFUL ALLEGRETTO, a lovely beige female sired by 4x champion, Patagonia’s El Galan.

What a handsome package! This erect, solid frame, large bone male has a beautiful phenotype with fantastic coverage! Then opening up an extremely fine fleece, consistent with uniformity of microns across the blanket is a true joy! Check out Hot Chocolate's DENSITY! Holy Moly! You would have to see the most elite alpaca to compare. Hot Chocolate has TWO traits ranking in the Top 5% EPDs in 2023 and FIVE Traits in the Top 10% EPDs for 2023! MC1R + ASIP Genotype: Ee AA COVID interfered with Hot Chocolate's show career, but that didn't stop him from earning 2x Get of Sire Blue Ribbons for his exceptional progeny! Hot Chocolate is the son of 9x Champion, CCNF Legionnaire, a 5-time Judges Choice winner as well as a Futurity Champion and AOA Reserve Champion. Legionnaire's 2018 micron test was AFD: 17.9 SD: 3.4 CV: 21.2 %>30: 0.5 and mean curvature of 58.6. He passes on amazing fleece traits including superior density to all his offspring. Hot Chocolate’s paternal sibling has the highest density from a skin biopsy ever recorded at 127.2 follicles/mm. CCNF Legionnaire is sporting a very Elite and stunning linage. Hot Chocolate's paternal grandparents are Snowmass Matrix Majesty (Snowmass Matrix X Snowmass Simply Scrumptious) and 10X Champion, CCNF Magdalena (Snowmass Legacy Gold X PPeruvian Jesusa.) His dam, Amber Autumn Holly Ho, won multiple Blue-Ribbons in 2014-2015, as well as 1st place and Reserve Champion at the 2014 Best of the US show. Hot Chocolate's maternal grandsire is a numerous Blue-Ribbon winner, Eclipse Alyst (out of Australian import, Jolimont 2 Peruvian Sweet William). Amber Autumn stated: "We purchased Eclipse Alyst because of his color, pedigree, and incredible dense fleece that has luster, handle, staple length, and very nice fineness. Eclipse always shears our heaviest weighted fleece even at 8 years of age and is still holding his fineness nicely." Hot Chocolate’s first offspring have arrived and while there are only a few, they are gorgeous. We are astounded by their density, glowing brightness, independent bundles and micro-bundling, beautiful crimp and style, uniformity, and extremely fine fiber. In fact, their fleeces each have superior traits in all aspects. This covers beautiful frames with correct conformation, great coverage, and strong bone. Hot Chocolate is also producing offspring usually darker than the dam. The darkest is currently dark brown. We can’t wait to utilize these prepotent genetics next season and see more cria! Watch for his cria in our show-string and contact us for a breeding to create a stunning cria of your own! Award-Winning Offspring: ESTATES GROOM OF THE WEDDING - 4x Champion ESTATES MYSTIC'S GOLDEN GIRL XXX - 1st Place & Reserve Champion, 2025 Wild West Alpaca Show ESTATES GOLDEN SCANDINAVIAN XXX - Many Blue Ribbons! ESTATES VINCENT VAN GOGH - 2nd Place, 2024 AOA National Show