Essence is a proven, compact true black foundation female who has demonstrated her ability to produce show-winning offspring. She has good chest capacity and a square frame with a medium bone structure. Her bite is perfect and her fleece still demonstrates a soft handle with complete coverage. Essence combines the following bloodlines; Peruvian Matador, MFI Peruvian Black Mesquite, Peruvian Hiedra, and Peruvian Black Brenna. Essence delivered a true black male from her pairing with Snowmass Matrix Midnight. We named him Easy Street. He's a well-conformed male with, a beautiful phenotype, with uniform fine TB fleece. We liked what that pairing produced so well, that we repeated it. Essence delivered an outstanding true black female from her second pairing with Snowmass Matrix Midnight. We are excited about this female. She carries a straight strong bone structure, tight bundling fleece, a deep black color, and a beautiful phenotype.

Vinnie is available for breeding at Blue Ridge Alpaca Ranch. Vinnie's 2018 histogram at 9 years of age, still has 21.3 MFD, 3.8 SD CV of 17.7, and fibers greater than 30, 2.1%! Check it out! Ventura, “aka Vinnie" is a medium fawn 8X Color & Reserve Color Champion. This is some of the finest, softest fiber you will find. The high-frequency crimp and density are amazing. Vinnie is sired by Snowmass Millenium who is a 4Peruvian Legacy son and Millenium’s dam is a Hemingway daughter. Vinnie’s dam is an Elite Maximus daughter. She is bay black and Vinnie has produced black many times even when bred to fawn. What an amazing pedigree of Millenium, Legacy, Hemingway, Elite Maximus, Accoyo Elite, and 5Peruvian Valeroso. Breed to one of the most pre-potent herd sires around today. Ventura is putting champions and blue ribbon winners on the ground at a spectacular rate! 40 banners between 20 different alpacas. Through the 2021 show season, Vinnie has 92 crias registered with 60 that have been shown: they have already taken 97 Blue Ribbons, 85 red ribbons, and 69 3rd place ribbons. He has produced winners in all colors. Some of Vinnie’s offspring: Blueridge Pristine 2X CC in 2021 KKA's and Seven Hills Gabe 2020 2X CC Token Creek's Fantine 2020 RC at Nationals Son Shilo a 5X Banner winner Daughter Irish Meadows Nectar was the high-selling female at the 2016 Priority Auction! Daughter OLAA WMFA Ventura's Wild Flower highest-selling female at the 2016 AOA National Auction. Daughter Oak Lawn Cheyenne was the 2016 AOA National Show Brown Female Color Champion. OLAA Heartbreaker 3X RC Vinnie is consistently in the top 4% of 5 different EPD traits out of over 27,000 Skin Biopsy results at 3 yrs. of age: 74.86 FOLLICLES SQ MM, S/P 15.3/1, secondary fiber 16.9 microns, primary 21.6. This is an outstanding difference of only 4.7 microns! Ventura Show Record 8 Color and Reserve Color Champion 4 Time Get of Sire Winner 2nd place Get of Sire 2016 AOA National Show