 Welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Horky. Hi, I'm Shereen Tan. We're welcome back to this show. We are excited because we are going to taste one of our favorite grapes. Actually, you've come on strong lately loving this grape, right? Particularly because of Santa Barbara. Well, Serah. We're tasting Serah from Santa Barbara County. Before we get into this, I wanted to let you guys know that this video has not been paid for in any way, shape, or form, but if you like these videos, if they add value to your life, check out our guide of the wines of Santa Barbara called Sipping Santa Barbara. Recommend the wines I've produced. It's available on Amazon. And yeah, so before we get into this, we extracted these wines using our Coravin Model 2 Elite. Thank you to Coravin for giving us a test sample to use. And we poured them into these beautiful Gabriel Gold Edition hand blown glasses. Am I surprising you a lot today? Yeah, I'm laughing a lot. These wines are lighter than Zalto. We just used Zalto, a Zalto Universal, and I was shocked at how heavy it felt because these are 90 grams, about half the weight. So let's get into this. We're talking about Santa Barbara County Serah Appalachian wines. And what does that mean? It means all these wines use fruit from all over Santa Barbara County. They're not visit designated wines. And you know, Serah, let me start over. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are like the flagship grapes of Santa Barbara County. But Serah might also be the strongest performer in the county. What do you think? 100% agree. I find that generally, the Serah from Santa Barbara expresses more cool at the notes. So you get a blue fruit, violet, you get a bacon fat, but it's more controlled and it has good acidity as well. Love it, love it, love it, love it. Let's get into it. The first one we have is these are all famous wineries. We have the P.S. Pedro Sasa, 2016, Santa Barbara County Serah, 26 U.S. dollars, 900 cases of this mane. I only know that because it says on the bottle. I know interesting because they use indigenous for indigenous yeasts for fermentation, and also they age only in 500 liter oak casks. You know, when we first went to Santa Barbara County, we tried to go to the tasting room, which was closed and we had to end up buying a bottle of an older vintage of this wine. So we have not tasted this vintage. I'm excited. We also have a video coming up with Vinger designated Serahs from Pedro Sasi. Sashi Mormon is the wine maker. Let's give this a little bit of a go. We'll pick up. Love it. Blackberry, violets for me, green herbs, right, for me. I think it's very, the fruitness is kind of like the carbonic maturation kind of fruitness right now. It's very fresh, very focused. Brambly, so to speak. I think this was 12 months in 500 liter oak. Nice. Let's give this a go. Nice, nice acidity. And it's full, brought shoulder. This is a medium to full-bodied wine. Tannins are soft for Serahs. Serah tannins can start to get a little bit aggressive sometimes. Beautiful acidity, not overly complex, but then again this is a, this is a county designated wine. I'm enjoying this a lot. I'm about 4.1. How to five on this? What do you think? I missed out at first, but now when I really tasted it, it has nice citrus finish as well. Yeah, it is. I'm very high on it. You like it a lot, especially 26 bucks. All of that, all of that. Bigger, if you want to share it for me. Okay, let's move on here. A very famous producer that focuses mainly on Serah. This is the Tensley Serah from 2016. Website says 28 US dollars, but you know what? Weird thing. I'm a huge Gary Vaynerchuk fan. We went to Wine Library in New Jersey, where I picked this up, and I picked it up there for 20 bucks. So that was cool actually going there. That was the one wine that I purchased. Tensley is famous for Serah. It gets massive scores from Robert Parker, from Venice, from Suckling, anywhere from 91 to 98, 99 points. This is the basic entry-level wine. Let's get into this. He sources from fruit a little bit further in, a little bit further from the coast. So wine's a little bit bigger. Let's give this a smell. I find it to be more floral, like a picture sassy. This is like more Northern kind of Rony-esque. This to me has a little bit more Australian thing going on, a little bit more riper fruit for me. What do you think? Yeah, I guess this has subtle, savory notes, whereas this is more fruit and floral right now for me on the nose. Black fruit, black berry, pepper. This is meaty even a little bit. I have to say, I'm digging this nose a lot quite a bit. What do you... This is 2,002. It tastes more saddle as well. Come back to visual sassies 2016. Very good. I think he blends a little bit of new barrels of new French oak. She definitely picked up the wood. It's rounder. It's a little bit bigger on the palette. Definitely fruity, more peppery, more meaty. This is more delicate. This is kind of Saint-Joseph-Yves, right? Saint-Joseph-Yves? A little bit bigger than typical Saint-Joseph. This is definitely... Oh, you like this too. I'm 4.2 out of 5 on this. I think this is delicious. What do you think? I like it too. I'm excited to hopefully we can do a show to taste some of this, like his Colson Canyon, his Tensley Vineyard, all these other single vineyard stuff. I'm actually really impressed with this wine. What do you think? I really like the spicy finish as well. Yep. Good job by Tensley. Okay. Well, let's see if this wine tops it off because it's Shereen's, maybe her favorite producer in Santa Barbara County. She can't stop talking. And I like that Sarah too. This is the Samsara Syrah 2015, Santa Barbara County, 40 US dollars. Also Indigenous East Spontaneous Fermentation and Neutral French Oak. Let's give this a go, shall we? This is definitely more... Polish, oaky on the nose. To me, not oaky. This is almost like a hotter weather. This is cooler weather fruit. Yeah, okay. Definitely. You got some brown oak spice. To me, these two are more dark fruit. This is a little bit leaner. This is bigger. This is like... Kind of like I got the very smoothie cool whip thing going on for me. A little bit of this fresh cut or rather like a new furniture, make a mahogany wood kind of smell. This is beautiful, right? Let's give this a go. This is more... Pretty light for a Sarah, medium body. What do you think? I find it hard to pick. I like every single one. These are all... I think Sarah in California, you're getting a lot of value for money. These are all for entry-level Appalachian wines. These are all serious wines. I don't think I could... I like these two a little bit more than this. I think I'm 4.1, 4.2, 4.2 on both of these on Vivino. This is bigger, has some muscle. This one's leaner, has some more contours in it. All very good wine. Anything else you want to add on the center? I find this to be the lightest body. This is a little bit bigger and this is the bigger. And then I find that this is the freshest. Freshest. Yeah, it has nicer or more pronounced acidity for me. But all three are very different style. Like this is more controlled fruity and also a little bit of back tone of earth. Whereas this is more floral on the nose and then this is fruit and savory and bacon fact. It's all different too. I would like to have this with stewed meats and these two maybe with grilled meats. Because it's a little bit bigger, right? Yeah. So I know. Good job by Sarah, guys. Good job by all these producers. Yay, Sarah. I'm going to put the discount code for 15% off. Gabrielle Glass, Standart Edition and Alpha Decayner up on the screen now. You can use it. We're not affiliates. You can use it however you want to. Just something nice for you. This is like ceramic in like Pinot Noir style. Sorry, I'm really into it. Yeah. This is more Centaurina Hillsy Pinot Noir. Lovely, lovely, yeah. I think delicious stuff. So all good wines. Very nice job by Joey Tensley. I'm sorry. This one used to be made by Chad Melville, but now they have a new wine maker. Matt Brady and then Sashi Mormon made the Piedrasasi. So nice job by all you gentlemen, right? Guys, check out the Guide to the Wines of Santa Barbara, Sipping Santa Barber. It's on Amazon. I'll also put it on the screen. And if you like this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Exact Wine Travel. I will see you at the next episode.