 Welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Orkey. Hi, I'm Sherry Tan. Okay, we are gonna be tasting some serious wines today. We're gonna be tasting some single vineyard Serra from Santa Barbara County, and you are excited, I'm sure. Before we get started, that didn't sound very convincing. No, I was just wondering why you're obsessed with the bottle. So, guys, before we get started, I want to let you know that this video has not been paid for in any way, shape, or form. But if you like these videos, to add value to your life, check out our Guide to the Wines of Santa Barbara call. Sipping Santa Barbara, I recommend that wines and producers. It's on Amazon available in multiple electronic formats. We extracted the wines here from our Corvin Model 2 Elite. Thank you to Corvin for providing this to us. We would not have gotten through all of these episodes on the wines of Santa Barbara County without this. And we're pouring into these by... Beautiful! Gabrielle Glass Gold Edition Hand-Bone Glasses. 90 grams of glass. These are super light. We actually, it's so funny. We like Zalto a lot. We just drink, use the Zalto Universal, and it felt so heavy compared to the Gabrielle Glass Gold, right? So, let's get into these wines here. So, Serra in Santa Barbara County. You know, Chardonnay Pinoir are the headlining grapes there, but Serra might be Numero Uno. What do you think in the county? I think it's all in the same league. You think it's all... I don't know what Serra is. For me, I think Chardonnay Serra maybe in a Pinoir just under. Maybe, maybe, maybe. That's the car that could be made. So, this is a very, very well-known producer, Pedro Sasi. Pedro Sasi owned by Sashi and Melissa, Sashi Mormon, famous wine maker. He also makes wines that domain de la Cote, Sandy, and some evening land, I think, or something else. I don't know, I can't know. Anyways, he started with Adam Tomac at the Ojai Vineyard, focuses on cool climate Serras with this Pedro Sasi label. I am excited because we have the same vintage, different vineyards within the area in front of us. We also have his beautiful Pedro Sasi Ballard Canyon Harrison Clark Vineyard. This is 50 percent Serra, 50 percent Mourved. 35 US dollars. We won't be tasting this on camera, but you'll have to check out our social media. Check out our Facebook page, Instagram. I'm sure we're going to have something on this. We just don't have enough glasses. Yeah, I'm really curious why he didn't put granache in there, too. Just, just about. Anyway, it's going to be good. All right, let's get in the wines here. First off, let's start off with the Pedro Sasi 2015 Santa Maria Valley from the Biennacito Vineyard. 55 US dollars. These wines are all, they will undergo elevage or basically aging in 500 liter oak. 270 cases made of this. Let's, we're going to probably want to keep some in the glass so we can compare as we move along. Let's get, let's get going here. Biennacito, very famous vineyard. Biennacito, we've been there before. A beautiful vineyard. Okay, hold on. We're stepping into the big boy leagues with these wines, right? Stem inclusion, right? Yeah, I think he's not 100%. Whole cluster, some whole cluster. 13%. This has just a really elegant nose, right? Completely. This is the real deal. I almost might not be able to get a sense of this around the nose. It's like, it's like the Tomahawk, the Ohio Vineyard. Sarah from John Sebastiano Vineyard. Yeah, I mean it has black fruit but really there's a lot of fresh grape fruitness. It's not as peppery as Sarah, it's kind of smells a little bit more juicier. No, not as Sarah's coming up, more violet. Oh, okay, the violet's starting to come out in Mediterranean herbs a little bit. This is just, this is one of these glasses that I could just be smelling forever. Yeah, floral, perfume, gentle. What do you think? Superb. This is outstanding stuff, guys. Elegant in the mouth. It's this thing where it's kind of wavy but yet it's light on the speaker. Like a really strong boxer that's kind of nimble on his feet. Tenons are very, very nice, easy going. This is juicy. This is serious. This is savory. I am 4.4 out of 5 on this. I think it's beautiful wine. What do you think? I agree with you. It has the lightness of a pinot noir, seriously. I mean the flavor of the side that we're definitely going to show itself as Sarah. Really the body feels like a pinot noir. You're going to pour that back in, right? I'm going to pour that back in. I saw that about all the wines today. Let's move on. I'm excited to taste the difference here. Another cool client here. This is the Piedrasasi Senorita Hills 2015 from the John Sebastiano Vineyard. One of your favorites. $55 US dollars. 200 cases made. 13.5% alcohol. Let's see what we got here. A little bit docum. A little bit more oak to Oakie's Fence. Senorita Hills versus Senorita Valley. I feel like Senorita Hills has a little bit. The fruit is kind of darker almost. Spicier. More savory too. The color is darker as well. This is more sorai. This is almost pinot noir. Dark fruit. This is awesome stuff, right? This is violets. Perfume. Black olives. Floral. Black fruit. You might, yeah. A little bit of bay leaf as well. It's definitely. Just a touch of oak. Look, it's the kind of oak that's done perfect. Man, these wines are good. Ooh, it's spicy. What do you think? It has a nice citrus leaf in the palate. On the palate as well. It's fantastic. What do you think? It's fantastic. And comparing these two wines, what do you think? Very different profile. Personally, I prefer this. Because it tastes more syrup-esque. It's got a nice tenons on the finish. Really, black pepper spice on the finish. Not there. I'm 4.5 out of 5 on this. I think it's absolutely. For your back, for your back. I think it's... She ruined that spit and she saved me for later. This is a serious show, right? This is a really good wine. Definitely a wine that I think it's going to appease people that like kind of French style wines and maybe some refined Australian charades that's kind of in between, wouldn't you say? Yeah. It's bigger than typical, like, northern Montserrat. I mean, this is some killer stuff here. Let's get started. So, we're cheating a little because they are in the Lumpuk Wine Ghetto, but this vineyard is not in Santa Barbara County. It's just north in Arroyo Grande, the Arroyo Grande Valley, which is in San Luis Obisbo County. I'm sorry. This is Arroyo Grande Rim Rock Vineyard Syrah. 170 cases made, 65 US dollars. This is Pietro Sassi's most expensive wine, highest scored wine out of a bunch. Let's give this a go here. So, this was, to me, more gentle, right? And then this was more savory and bigger. I think this one based on the news comes somewhere between. So, we're exactly in between, right? Elegant yet big at the same time. This is a little more bacon fatty, wouldn't you say? I feel like it's a riper, a riper fruit as well on the news. Black fruit, this definitely has a lot of pepper. It's like, has the ripe fruit, it has the refined, these are good wines. Wow. What do you think? What do you think of this? The finish and the tannins has a little bit of this toasty opiness to it, but very well integrated. Really extended finish. This has really long finish. Yeah, I mean, do you prefer this over this? For now, for drinking, I would prefer this, but this one is too, I mean, when you think about which is the bad mate wine, I would say this is a lot. I'm going to go 4.4, 4.5, 4.6. I actually was hoping, I'm expecting the more expensive wine sometimes to fall flat, because it does happen a lot of times, but wow, this is some serious, serious stuff here. Matt's dad is making a funny face behind, it's funny. This is extremely well made, delicious. You know, there's such a dramatic step up from the basic Piedrasasi, which is very good, but these wines obviously take it another level. Anything else you want to comment on these wines? Again, often when you meet a good producer and you go to a good at AVA or Vinnia, it's about what kind of style you like instead of whether it's good or not. Yeah, yeah, I mean, my score is personal preference. I don't think anybody that knows wine is going to have a problem with any of these wines. This is such a fun bottle to bring to people as well. I mean, come on, it's a different shape, you know, a good wine. So guys, I'm going to put the discount code for the Gabriel Glass up on the screen right now. You get 15% off the Machine Blown Standard Edition or Alphada Cantor. Once again, check out our guide to the wines at Santa Barbara called Sipping Santa Barbara. Recommend the wines of producers. Check out Piedrasasi, I'll put their link in the description box. By the way, on the Gabriel Glass, if you want to perform, you just get the discount. Good for you, you get to take some nice glasses home. We don't get anything out of it. It was just something fun to do. Piedrasasi is in the Lumpark Wine Ghetto and Melissa saw she's wife. I think she helps in the winemaking, but she also bakes bread, like Wednesday through Saturday. There's a bakery. She sent us some white wine vinegar too, so we're excited to get into that. Anything else you want to add on these? If you liked this episode. So guys, if you liked this episode, we'll see you at the next episode.