 Welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Orkey. Hi, I'm Sharon Todd. Welcome back to the show today. We are back after two a week and a half in Napa Valley ready to shoot and retaste some wines from Santa Barbara County. Are you excited? I'm excited. I just turned back because there's a shadow at the edge. Okay, no problem. It doesn't matter if there's a little shadow. We have to do some lighting. So we're getting ready to taste some wines from Preskeel here. And we'll talk about the producer in a second, but I just 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 we're doing, if they add value to you, check out our guide to the wines of Santa Barbara entitled. Sipping Santa Barbara recommended wines and producers. It's available on Kindle. It's on Amazon, Kindle, PDF and Epo. Right? So I'll put that up on the screen. All right. So we have three wines here from Preskeel. We poured them into these beautiful Gabrielle gold glasses. Super light. These things are super nice. I will have a discount. We will have a discount code for these glasses at the end of the show. Right? And we poured them into these glasses using our Coravin Model 2 Elite. Thank you to Coravin for sending us a test sample to use for this series on Santa Barbara wines. It's been awesome. Yep, Coravin has done it without idle family. So let's get started. These are the wines of Preskeel. Now Preskeel is real interesting. They're in the Santa Maria Valley, the northern portion of Santa Barbara County, and it was a southern family. The Murphy family moved from, I believe, Louisiana, moved out west and started a winery. These are the wines that they wanted to show. We have not had these vintages yet, so we're really excited. But I like this winery a lot. Shareen likes this winery a lot because the consultant is Jeremy Sase of Domaine du Jacques. Those are wines Shareen likes very much. So you're ready to get started? Yeah, especially. I'm excited to see the Pinot Noir. Well, let's get started here. First, we're getting started with the Sauvignon Blanc from 2016. Fresh white wine. This was pretty cool. It was aged for six months, a third in concrete eggs, a third in stainless steel, and a third in used oak. Let's get into the wine here so far. I could smell this as I was pouring out of the Coravin. What do you pick out? This is quite marble in style, but it's dialed back a little bit. It has a little bit of minerality, but it's still quite New Zealand-esque. Like it's just pungent. It's got some Kiwi-like flavors, lime, lemon. Kind of snappy. It still gets some grassy flavors. I find the nose quite attractive because it's right, but it's not overdone. Yeah, I agree. Right? Let's give this a go. I'm really happy. He'll be back tasting some Santa Barbara Pinot Noir. Sorry, Sauvignon Blanc because after tasting them in Napa where they're a little bit fatter, I much prefer this style. What do you think of this wine? You know how I don't generally like the pungent nose of Sauvignon Blanc, but I mean I can appreciate it from a wine lover perspective, and I think this is a fantastic wine. I think this is fantastic. It's green on the nose. You got a lot of green fruit. I love the finish. There's a bit of tropical fruit. I love the mango finish. It's a medium body white. It's not huge. Yeah. It's not linear. It still has acidity. It has some weight to carry it. Really, really, really nice wine. Big enough to hold up the chicken, I think. Definitely some cream sauce, but it has this acidity and these lovely fruit flavors. I'm 4.2 out of 5 on this. I think the acidity is stunning. I'm 4.2 out of 5 on this. I think it's beautiful. Yeah. One of the better Sauvignon Blancs we've had. So all these wines, they make different versions of all three of these wines. These are Santa Maria Valley, which means they get fruit from all over Santa Maria Valley. They have some single vineyard efforts as well. Let's move on. We have the Presquil Chardonnay from 2015. One year, and you have the text she's here, used, okay, I believe, in six months in stainless steel. So I am excited to taste this. Shireen prefers the, you prefer, for Chardonnay, do you prefer Santa Maria Valley or do you prefer Santa Maria Hillismore? Generally, Santa Rita. What about you? I have to say, I think for Chardonnay, for Santa Maria Valley. Why? It has like a little bit, it's not as bright, it's not as big, and it has maybe an herbal note to it, I think. Let's give this a go here. Pretty explosive nose, actually. What are you picking up here? Peachy. Lots of peach. Not too much wood, which I am loving. Not too much wood at all, but it is there. We do get some vanilla. Yeah, you get a yogurt as well. I really like, just really pretty nose. Santa Maria noses to me for Chardonnay, maybe a little more perfumey type deal, where Santa Rita hills, I get more fruit up front. That's my interpretation of it. Okay. Let's give this a go. For me, Santa Maria is more fruit and Santa Rita is more mineral, but generalization. What do you think? It's not fair to compare, but since we're having this by sight, I prefer the Sauvignon Blanc, it's more memorable to me. I think this is a little bit, it's not as expressive right now, this is a little bit bouncier, a city, still really, really well made Chardonnay, medium bodied, not huge, just a touch of oak. You're going to get everything that you want out of Chardonnay. A little bit of melon, a little bit of pineapple peach, a little bit of banana, but not overly banana, not overly buttery or anything like that, right? Brightest city. I think for me, I think this is pretty darn good. I'm higher on this than you are. Go for it, please. Hey, I'm 4.0 out of 5 on this. I think this is good. The Sauvignon Blanc got me a little bit more excited, but I still think this is a good one. Shall we move on? Anything else you want to add on there? No, I think you're pretty good with the assassin. All right, let's move on. So this is the wine that Shereen has been very excited about. This is the Presqueal Pinot Noir from 2015, Santa Maria Valley. Was it a whole cluster fermentation? I don't know. I would believe that there is at least a little bit. Because Dujak is a champion of whole cluster fermentation. Does it say? 32% whole cluster. Oh, I get so excited. I almost took it all for myself and didn't give you any. Oh, first of all, true Pinot Noir color. For me, Santa Rita Hills usually has more color for Pinot Noir than Santa Maria Valley. That's what I get. I don't really pay my attention to color most of the time, yeah. It's got this nice cranberry juice color. Let me give this a stiff. What do you think? True. The 777 clone nose comes out of brown sugar. Is it 777 really? No, there has to be a few. Mount Eden 777, Palmer 667 and 115 are the clones for you hardcore wine geeks. The nose is very good, right on point. For me, this is kind of what I want in California, Pinot Noir. I get cool red fruit, a little bit of like that cool whip, a little bit of earthiness, fall autumn leaves, not a ton of wood, although it's there. 17 months in oak. You're liking this a lot, I think, right? I like the nose. This is the nose that I appreciate. More red fruit, cola, a little bit of spice, vanilla spice, brown sugar. Let's give it a go. It's quite complex. I'm sorry. I mean, these range $28 for $7.35 for the Chardonnay and $42 US dollars for the Pinot Noir. Fantastic technique structure. Really nice. And it has this extended candy cherry finish to it. Long finish. It's a little more tannins. I always think of Santa Maria Valley Pinot Noir to have softer tannins, right? This has a little bit more power, don't you think? Yeah, I don't think it's just a fruit per se. Maybe it's the style of wine making as well. I feel that this is more sender reader and style in the sense that it's built for aging, long aging. Especially for now, just a Santa Maria and AVA Appalachian, not single vineyard wine, $42 US dollars. I am huge. I'm 4.3 out of 5. I think it's very good. Anything else that you want to add on this wines? Well, I would definitely recommend this wine. I like it. Okay. I am going to put up the discount code for the Gabrielle Glass Standard Edition Alpha Decanter. You can get 15% off. We are not affiliates in any way, shape or form, but you can use the code. I'll put it up on the screen right now. If you like this video too, once again, check out our guide to the wines of Santa Barbara, Sipping Santa Barbara. Recommended wines and producers. Anything else you want to add on Presquio? I think they're all set. I think they are up and coming producers and a lot of people have been saying great things about them. Strong showing. Actually, you know what? I didn't really know what to expect. So, strong showing by all these wines. I think it's been said and believed by a lot of people as well that they are getting better and better with every new vintage. Okay. So, check out their wines. I will put the link in the description box. Guys, if you like this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel, Exotic Wine Travel. I will see you at the next episode.