 Welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Horky. Hi, I'm Sharon Tan. Nice to meet you. Welcome back to the show today. Today we have a cool show today. We have Santa Barbara Red Wines Value Wines. I'm going to talk about value under 25 US dollar retail, although I've seen all these wines, I think on Wine Searcher for under 20. Yeah, 1990, so you ready to get into this? Some wines that you actually really like. So 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, if they add value to your life, check out our Guide to the Wines of Santa Barbara. Sipping Santa Barbara. Recommended wines and producers. It's available on Amazon, Kindle, PDF, Moby E Pub. I'll put that in the description box. We have these three wines here, all from my look of it. Yeah, all rind grapes. So I'm excited about that. We poured them, we corvind them using our Corvind Model 2 Elite. Thank you to Corvind for sending us a sample unit to test. We poured them into these beautiful Gabriel Gold Edition glasses. You want to show? Oh yeah. I love how this, I mean I really love swirling wine in this. And this is very delicate. These are actually loiter than Zolto Universals. We have a discount code for these glasses, for Gabriel Glass Stemware at the end of the video. I'll put it in the, in the screen. You ready to get started? Let's go. All right. First wine up. So we have all, these are all, these wines all have sarah in them, which is pretty cool. A grape that's doing extremely well in Santa Barbara County. The first we have one of the maestros with sarah. We have Beckman Vineyards. Kuvee Lebeck 2015. This is Granacella Mouvedre and Koonwa. So GSM with Koonwa. I've, on this website, I think it's 22, 25 US dollars. Although I have seen this retail for below 20. Let's take a look at this. This was aged in neutral oak. This vintage has a little bit more granache in it. This is the wine he produces. The most of people that like big, rich, fruity wines are really going to like Beckman Vineyards like my dad. He loves, he loved that Beckman granache. So let's give this a go. GSMs, if you're not familiar, some famous GSMs around the world. The Rones from Southern Rhone, Shatnav Tupap, come to mind, Priorat. Some beautiful wines. Let's give this a smell. What do you think so far for a? Very variably correct. I mean, I think I might be, you know, I'm pretty sure I will be able to get this like granache or GSM if I smell this. Just exactly what you would expect. I'm impressed. Beckman, you know, I have been tough on some of their wines in the past. I'm not going to lie. And the wines that we've tasted on the show so far have not been too sweet. They've been really, really nice. Ripe, red cherry, berry tart, earth, white pepper, berry tart, a little bit of chocolate. That's a little bit of toastiness to it. Like, like a, like a chat, a chat meat smell to it too. Doesn't smell like an inexpensive wine though, right? To me. No, smells really high quality. Let's go. I'm impressed. I haven't had this vintage before. What do you think? Like roast meat and berry pie in a bottle. It's very Côte d'Auron village-esque to me. Spicy. The wood comes in. Like I said, I'm very sensitive of the wood. The wood comes on strong, not overly bearing by any stretch of the word. But nice, meaty, fruity, white pepper, anything else? I love the aroma in this. So you like this one? Yeah, I like the aroma a lot. I'm pretty high on this too. For me, easily 4.0. Actually, I'm going to go 4.1 out of 5 on Vivino. That's what I would probably put the score as I'm on my Vivino account. I think it's delicious. You're pretty good, right? It's really good. I'm going to even take a little bit. There's a bit of cherry colander to it too. A lot of flavors. Yeah. Nice start. Nice, nice. That would go good with the meatloaf we had for lunch. What a bit of tenon. Let's go. Next up, we have the Stortman. Pada Maria de los Colotes. But Pada Maria, that's what it's known as. 22 US dollars, 2016. 85% Sera, 15% Petite, Bear, Doe. Very cool story. Stortman, producer we like and respect very much. Maria is their crew leader that helps leads the crew that harvest the grapes. And they have a partnership with her. So her family is 50%. It's a 50-50 partnership. It's cool. They also do a wine where they give 50% of proceeds to their vineyard workers. Responsible. Good for them. 22 US dollars, although I've seen it. I've seen it for under 20 at Wine Searcher. And also 2017 Wine Enthusiast Editors' Choice Wine. Nine months in French oak. Let's give it a smell. I smell a lot of Petite Bordeaux. Whoa, it's violet for me. Do you pick up a violet? Yeah. Color is dark. Dark, bloody, dark, color. Okay. Raspberry. Blackberry. Serranness to it. Bloody. Anything else? I don't get a pepper as much. Syrup being a smell. A ton of violet. I like this a lot. I like the nose. First of all, the nose is very pretty on this wine. This reminds me of the... Peppery. I can't remember what it's called. The Bessono wine. The basic Bessono wine. The Bessono Poggio something. Very sick. Yeah. I can't remember. But anyways, this is very good wine, right? For this price point, this is a wine that's easily going to score 90 plus points. I think it did a couple 90 point scores. Wine Enthusiast, blah, blah, blah. This is really good stuff for a cheap young wine. Don't you think? We need to drink now, but a lot of potential to age. It's got the serranness in it. If you like a little bit of vanilla from the wood. Yeah, a little bit. Not too much. A little bit of meaningless Blackberry Violets. Medium finish. Same thing. Which one do I... Actually, 4.04, 4.1. I think I would go on Vivino. I like this just a tad. What do you like? What do you prefer so far? The backman? You prefer... Okay. Okay. Let's move on here. One legendary producer. The oldest Serrann producer in America. The third winery established in Santa Barbara after prohibition, I believe. Zacamesa Serrann, a state grown and bottled 2014-25 US dollars. This wine is consistently vintage after vintage. One of our favorite values. You could never go wrong with this wine. Fall woman. Hold on. Wine scene. I am excited about this. Oh, our first wine ever from Santa Barbara County was a Zacamesa Serrann. Actually, so let's give this a go. I am very excited about this. Zacamesa, a producer where a lot of legendary winemakers have come from. Adam Tolmok from the Ohio Vineyard. Jim Clendenin from Obon Climat. I think Andrew Murray worked there. So many legendary producers worked at Zacamesa at some point in time. Very nice. Lots of dried herbs, dried thyme. These are more fruity. This one is more herbal to me. Green herbs. For me, it's dried herbs. Thyme. Oh, you hear it on the head. Darker fruit. Blackberry. Black cherry. Not so peppery on the nose, but we'll see it's on the mouth. Zacamesa to me, the wines are always clean. Clean, very polished efforts. Let's give it a go. Yeah, it's not very spicy, but you still get a bit of black pepper and nodes. It's tangy. This is 2014, but I'm getting a little bit of lathery nodes to it already. That is four years old, wine. Almost four years. So what are you thinking about this so far? You love this wine. Vintage after vintage. Yeah. This vintage, what? Still love it. I like all the flavor, the profile coming together. You get obnoxious nodes. You get savory. You get fruit. It's really tangy. It has some sorrel almost to me. Get like this orange citrus peel. Okay. So how would I organize this? Well, these two are fruitier. Would be very easy to go. I mean, I think a lot of people would like both of these wines. I could see these wines going really well with meats too as well, right? Because they have a certain meatiness, savoriness to them. This is a little bit more herbal. Dry oats, yeah. Anything else that you want? I'm very, very fond of this because like I said earlier, all the flavor profiles are coming together on top of that. I don't really get orange or rind flavors, but I think it's that lift. Like you get your black fruit and your red fruit. So it's a very good balance of both. All good wines. I must say for me, if I had to score in provino 4.2, they're on the same range. 4.0 to 4.2 range. All wines that I would be guessing looking at if critics were scoring them somewhere 89, 91 points, some of the range. Good job for value. And Santa Barbara County. Yeah, exactly. Good job. Santa Barbara, for me, I love it. That's why I love it so much. It kind of has it all. You've got the value driven wines. You've got brilliant white wines from different types of grapes, brilliant peony noir, cera, even Bordeaux blends, huh? Yeah, for each wine, like 2014, yeah, paying $25 or... It's beautiful wine. So guys, check out these wineries. I will put their links in the description box. These three producers have a little bit more volume, so their prices are low and you can find them with national distribution, I think. Excuse me. I'm going to put the discount code for the Gabriel Glass, standart edition and alpha decanter up on the screen. You get 15% off. We are not affiliates. It's just an offer that we extend to you. Do something nice, right? I guess check out our guide to the wines of Santa Barbara, Sipping Santa Barbara. Recommended wines and producers. And guys, if you liked this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel, and I'll exotic wine travel. I will see you at the next episode.