 Welcome back to exotic wine travel. I am your host Matthew Horky. Hi, I'm Sherene Tye Welcome back to the show today. We're doing some high-end pina noir from Santa Barbara County, so I know Sherene is excited, right? I'm always excited. Before we get started guys, I want to let you know that these videos have not been paid for in any way shape or form But if you do like these videos, if they add value to your life, check out our guide to the wines of Santa Barbara. Entitled Sipping send the Barbara recommend at wines and producers. It's available on Kindle, Amazon It's our Amazon Kindle E-Pub PDF blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Yeah Let's go We're getting started that we're getting ready to you know get dive into these wonderful pina noirs We use our Corvind model 2 elite. Thank you to Corvind for allowing for sending us a test sample to use Great we extract some wine the what the cork stays in the wine the wine can set we can age the wine for longer Everybody wins right and you win because you get to experience what these wines taste like I guess kind of We're pouring into these beautiful Gabrielle gold Edition hand-boned glasses 95 grams of glass these things are light sexy nice to hold I will have discount code for governor glass somewhere at the end of the video ready to go Yeah, I especially love pina noir in these glasses Yeah, pina noir actually this glass is performed great with everything exit We haven't sparkling in it yet, but I'm sure it would perform well in sparkling So let's get started. We have three Very nice pina noir very nice as an understatement from some very pedigree producers a new kid on the block as well So let's get started here without any further ado first We have the liquid farm Santa Barbara County, so it's a VA design at Santa Barbara County 2016 the fruits from 54% Solomon Hills 23% bienniosito vineyard those two are in Santa Maria and 23% of the spears vineyard in Santa Rita Hills Jeff Nelson interesting guy. He said he never was gonna make a red wine He only mind to make whites, but he ended up making pina noir And he has an interesting thing in Santa Barbara and everyone California everyone's moving more towards terroir driven wine So single vineyard lots he's trying to blend to create the best wines he possibly can And that's how he sells them. So uh young wine 2016 15 months in oak. Let's get started beautiful cherry cherry juice cranberry color This smells very Santa Rita Hills to me very rich ripe cherry juice For me, it's almost like cherry juice a little bit of spice It's almost like a lot of pina noir for me There's an intricate balance between the fall leaves earthy flavor and the fruit and this one the fruit Interplay is just a little bit more in the fall leaves. It's something under there a little bit And I think that little spice that you typically get from Santa Maria as well. It smells beautiful for a young wine I mean 45 us dollars the only pina noir that I think he's gonna make from now on he was making I think some Santa Maria stuff before the aroma is so powerful that it's almost like smelling a and a rumor essence I like this because I was talking about the fruit You know overcame the fall leaves also when the palate hit It's like the fall leaves came up and came on top silky medium-body pina noir We had some tannic structures not super big that's super tannic for pina noir But tannins are definitely their spicy finish a lot of vanilla spice And I think it's much more senator in style on the palate. Yeah, because of the tightness me too 4.3 out of 5 on this very easily I think is very good wine and what do you think about my score even though you don't score and you don't like score? Sure, okay Good you like it You like it? Yeah, okay. Let's move. This is one of Shireen's Favorite producers. These are her two of his top pina noirs. I want to thank Jim clendon and obon come out for sending these We are excited. Let's these two wines are getting massive scores. I mean, I'm talking about 94 95 points consistently from vintage after vintage. Let's get started first. We have the obon come out 2014 is a bell named after his daughter. This is a barrel selection of his best Vintage's been making this since 94 50 us dollars for this pina noir and the bottle weighs like a ton Okay I've had we have had had not had this finish. I've had the 12 the 13 I bought the 12 my own money at a wine bar in Singapore. It didn't show well, but you know, that's after we drank I can't remember some pretty good wine pretty done. I can't remember what Appalachian red burgundy we had but it was pretty darn good 13 was beautiful. Let's see how the 14 goes. It is young though What you picking up a lot of wood the wood comes through because it's it's young. He's a lot new French oak on this You can still get a fall leaf though fall leaves cherry spice the woods coming on strong because these wines are meant to age That's for sure This is but the fruit intensity is so powerful on these wines. Oh, sorry much better much Much thermotonic structure in this one The wood disappears on the palate for me, I don't pick up the wood on the palate You don't you disappoint you. You don't like it or I Wouldn't drink it right now. It's too young. Definitely. This is blinds too young. Oh, I Dis I know this is where our palates are gonna disagree a little bit I'm the palate. I love it. I love it. I love the tannic structure. I love the power of the fruit It's a big pinot noir It's not ripping your face off on but there are there are some tannic structure this wine though I don't think I'm gonna drink for another five years at least I think for me for me. I'm about 4.4 on this. I think it's very good stuff Just know that you got you gotta drink it now put it away. Don't drink it now wait for a few years No, let's move on here. So we have the Knox Alexander here This is after hit named after his son. This is also blue label 50 US dollars been making it since 98 this is vineyard selection Santa Maria fruit also the bottle is a ton I'm excited. I've had only one vintage of this in the past which we enjoyed a lot and let's give this a go I definitely prefer this the Knox Alexander immediately Isabella has a little muscle. This is a little bit more finesse Isabella's daughter Knox Alexander is his son Cherry definitely a lot of cherry for me a little bit of spice touch of wood Sandalwood sandalwood. Yeah, the wood is softer in this. I wonder if he uses more new French oak in this Okay, let's give this this the beautiful nose perfume. I mean this note. What do you think about this nose? This nose is I like this nose a lot. This is this is a nose that I typically would enjoy for me It's serious pricey shadow name Chardonnay, I'm talking about, you know, uh, let's give this a little bit ago. There's a sudden sweet-spice nose to it as well Cinnamon I like how it retains the silkiness of Pinot Noir with really small biting canons on the finish. I love this one. I love this one This one, you know, this wine I'm gonna put away. I'm not gonna drink for a while. This one. I could drink now. This wine has Incredible structure long finish intense fruit spicy finish touch of tannins this Knocking my socks off. What how much do how much you liking us? I like this a lot to be honest I couldn't understand the what what is the objective of where this one is going for is it there? I think I think it just needs some time. This is killer. I mean this for me 4.5 out of 4.5 out of 5 easily Power fruit. It's drinking. Well now it can age. The tannins are beautiful. It's unbelievable one I think extremely long-range palette, too Oh Good job Jim is exceptionally linear in the mouth And it's it's a wine that it's a wine that cuts right through the palette, right? Good job. You know, like I said, I'm putting this away for a while I hope the core of it holds up. We'll have to maybe we'll do an episode and retest it years later This thing gosh, this is tasting beautifully liquid farms drinking up. Good episode Good episode anything else you want to add on Pinot Noir from Santa Barbara County Generally it has a lot of expressions, you know, if you are a Pinot Noir lover you should check it out Yeah, you should check it out the all I think Jeff said he's in 30 states although in climates while distributors are all over the country I know you can get their basic wine that which we did a show on the Pinot Noir Chardonnay almost anywhere under 20 bucks Beautiful, they're high-end wines. You might only have to get from their mailing list or the winery I'll put the links in the description box I think also one thing to notice It's worth while spending a little bit more to get a single vineyard and the premium selection because the jump the basic Pinot Noir's are good But when you go for the single vineyard and more expensive wine the leap in quality is And I'm gonna say okay, so so we're wine geeks, okay? So we say oh, it's not that's about $50 for about one is expensive for a lot of people But I think when you're talking about these two biologs because we've had we know how this wine will go We've had it in the past For high-end Pinot Noir 50 bucks I don't think it's a lot to ask I mean divide that by the price of the coffee that you get from Starbucks Just not drink a couple of Starbucks coffee and good stuff So guys I'm gonna put the discount code for the Gabriel glass gold edition up on the screen you get 15% off the standard Machine-blown glass the alpha decanter. We're not affiliates so you can buy with confidence. It's just something nice We did for you check out our guide the wines of Santa Barbara sipping Santa Barbara recommended wines and producers and try Santa Barbara Pinot noir, there's a reason they made a film about it, right? Anything else you want to add guys if you like this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel exotic wine travel I will see you at the next episode