 Welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host Matthew Horky. Hi, I'm Sherry Intand. Welcome back to the show today. We have another exciting episode because we're talking all about Sattery the Hills and Santa Maria Valley high-end Chardonnay. I bet you were excited for this episode. Okay, but 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 do like these videos they they add value to your life. Check out our guide to the wines of Santa Barbara called Sipping Santa Barbara. Recommend a Wine Zan produced. It's on Amazon, Kindle, E-Pub, PDF, all that stuff that'll be up on the screen. So we're getting ready to taste these wines. You know I used the Corvind to extract the wines and thank you to Corvind for the Model 2 Elite. They let us, gave us a test sample to use for these shows. We wouldn't have gotten, we wouldn't have gotten through the shows without it. It's great. Extract some wine. The cork's still on the wine. The wine can rest and live for another day. Nice and fresh. We're pouring into these beautiful Gabriel Gold Edition hand-grown glasses. 95 grams of glass, super light, super nice. Ready? Let's get, I'll have a discount code for some of the Gabriel glasses somewhere at the end of the video. Let's get started here. So Chardonnay. Okay. You scared me there. Can you put this there? Chardonnay. So you know Chardonnay is probably the grape. If you had one grape to represent Santa Barbara County, I would think Chardonnay would be it, right? Chardonnay if you don't know why it's zero. But across the board Chardonnays are fantastic. You know to the main areas, if you go to Santa Barbara County that you're gonna hear about Santa Rita Hills and Santa Maria Valley, both cooler climates, which is surprising for how far south Santa Barbara County is. So let's get started. These are all higher end wines. First we have Longoria. This is the Chardonnay 2014 Santa Rita Hills. Kuve Diana. 45 US dollars. Rick Longoria was the first winemaker actually to establish the wine ghetto in Lumpock, a very cool place. We had too much fun. Kuve Diana is made for his wife Diana who we met at the tasting room. Fantastic lady. Let me see if this is a vineyard breakdown. It just says blend of the best lots of Chardonnay. So let's get started here. It's barrel fermented. Let's give this a logo. You prefer center. It's nice because we have one Santa Rita Hills and we have two Santa Maria Valley, right? You're deep in thought already. Let me smell this. Caramel. A little bit of mineral to it on the nose too. It smells like a big California Chardonnay what I would expect too. A lot of banana, just a touch of wood not overly woody. This is really interesting. I don't usually feel that way about wine but this really paints a picture for me. I really imagine myself to be in a wet bathing suit, you know by the beach under the sun. Because salty. Yeah, salty and sun. You smell it on your wet clothes. I have to say I'm not usually a huge fan of big fat ripe California Chardonnays but this one is really intriguing. I really like the nose so far. You love it. You love it. Okay. No fat at all. Really good acidity. Great bright acidity. Mineral driven. Wow. Bright, ripe. There's wood on it. Not too much wood though. It's not going to rip your face off. The wood is actually a complement to seasoning. It tastes really nice on the wine. It's full bodied Chardonnay mineral driven but laced with this gorgeous acidity that stretches at the length. This is a beautiful wine. I might be might be this is not my the most memorable Chardonnay that we've tasted among all the Chardonnays that we tasted. But this is definitely my favorite. Like that's what oh this is your Chardonnay that I'm used to. This is the style that I typically look for. If I get this at dinner, I'll be happy. I'm a 4.3 out of 5 on this. I think this is fantastic wine. Really fantastic. You know I don't score but I would go for 4.5. Really? I was actually thinking 4.4 and I was thinking conservative so maybe I go like scores really mean anything anyway. But okay you did. I'll go 4.4. That's what I put on our Vino account. This is the kind of wine I want to drink. It's drinking beautifully now. Rick Longoria, I love the wines. I love the house out. I feel like he doesn't get enough attention because his wines are always beautiful right? Yeah. Oh you love it right? It's just this amazing clarity in this wine. And I love that it's actually quite oaky on the nose but it's not that kind of heavy straight forward toasted nose. It's caramel. This is big California Chardonnay done right. In my opinion. What's the alcohol on this bad boy? Kuve Diana 4.13.5. Okay nice. Good job Rick. Good job. We're moving on to Dearberg. Dearberg and Star Lane. They're two estates. This is their Santa Maria Valley Dearberg Vineyard. Single Vineyard 2014 Chardonnay 32 US dollars. Tyler Thomas is the winemaker. His wines continue to impress us. All of the wines. This has obviously I don't know if you can see this. This has a real golden darker color. Let's get right. I am really excited. Dearberg's wine. This is 32 dollars. This is 40. The oboe and caramel is 45. I would like this just shot right past it but we'll see. Because their wines deliver more. Oh you're liking it already huh? This is really interesting. It's a little bit more spicy on the nose. Different. Your mouth smells a little bit dusty as well. Not in a bad way. But the fruit really comes through for me. It's like pure pineapple for me. Sliced pineapple. Mm-hmm. Touch of vanilla. This is a little bit more. Got a little more spice a little bit. More saltiness on the nose. What else you picking up? Coming close to tropical food in fact. Really ripe. Let's give it a go. Excuse me. Yes a little bit of a light, abatious lift to it. Great mouthfeel. Fantastic mouthfeel. It's herbal on the back end. This is another one. We just did the episode of Liquid Farm where one of the Chardonnays kind of had this this herbal kind of a Sauvignon Blanc-y type finish. That's where I get on this. The spiciness. It's not that it tastes or acts like a Sauvignon Blanc. It's big round Chardonnay. It's I mean this just has a little more fruit. This has more minerally. But I think they're pretty much the same quality scale. What do you think? The contrast of the funerals and the acidity can be found in both. I think both 4.4. I can't tell which one I like more. I think they're and for this being at 32 US dollars. Good job by Dearberg. I have a feeling of their prices are gonna go up because they're getting monster scores from Robert Parker, Venice. Yeah. Are you as high on this as the Longoria? I would take another full glass of it later. I find the nose very intriguing. Oh, you're going to take a full. Let's get let's move on. Excellent show so far really. Oh, you know what? And these wines are all really enjoyable now. What's I really like about they have some city to hold for a few years but I really like them now. We're moving on to the one of Shireen's favorite producers. When we first went to Santa Barbara she said we have to go there. This is the Albain Climat, Nui Blancabouche. Am I pronounced my French as bad? The Peerless 2014. This is from his blue label. This is from two vineyards, the Bien Nacido K-Bloc and the Le Bon Climat, a state vineyard across the river from the K-Bloc. Yeah, blue label. This is his premium wine, $40. I'm ready to give this ago. Did you pour yourself already? I didn't. No more? No, it's fine. Now this is a little bit more richer. I think this is more Californian shadowy for me. Yeah. I didn't think that that's like a typical style. This when I smell it, it's almost like a Hildegard. This is blend that I was talking about. The wood shows a bit much now but it's gonna melt in a few years. But it's because the fruit is so rich and bright. You get really, really get a lot of tropical fruit in this. This wine kind of reminds me of Miani Chardonnay. Miani from Frioli. It's powerful. It's really tight in the mouth. Miani is one of our favorite producers, Frioli, Venetia, Giulia, Colt producer in Italy. Completely different style than these two. These two are drinking a little bit better now. But don't, a lot of wood here. Don't be scared of the wood because this is some fruit. The fruit is really ripe. This is some serious juice. How much longer you want to keep this in bar before you think you're drinking this? Easily 10 years. Really? I think it's a very powerful wine. I mean it's got, it's got some muscle, definitely. Like like Miani Chardonnay, it's the one that I appreciate. I can drink a glass. I don't think I can drink more than two glasses of this. Really powerful. This is powerful, powerful Chardonnay. It's Chardonnay for a great wine drinker. I'm having a hard time scoring because I'm not, it's not, and I'm not enjoying drinking it as much as these two now. But I see the potential going out. It's going to be fantastic with a couple more years in bottle. It's really spicy on the finish for the oak. Which one's you, which one you, what would your overall feeling on the three? Full-fledged aging potential. I think if you do it quite analytically, I would say Au Bon Clermont is probably maybe a better wine than Derebuk. But I personally love the Derebuk the most. More than the Longoria. Oh wait, I'm sorry. I'm talking about Longoria. I love the Longoria the most. I think the Derebuk has a place to feel as well because this is much more acidic, lemon, crisp. I think I'm going 4.4s on both. And I think I might go 4.5 on gyms just because I see that the fruit is so ripe. It's so big. And it's gonna last. The wine is, I mean, good job. Just like it's held to God. It's one of those Chardonnay retennings. Sorry, I'm just like still feeling it. Wow. Fantastic. So good job. You know, gyms are real influential wine. Probably one of the most influential wine makers. One of the most influential wine makers in Santa Barbara County. Check them out. I will put the links to all these wines in the description box. These wines, I think all three of these wines, basically you're only getting on the winery. I think they have limited distribution. So yeah, check it out. Guys, I'm going to put the discount code for the Gabrielle Glass Standard Edition up on the screen. You get 15% off the standard and the Alfa De Canter. Check out our wine. Our God, the lines of Santa Barbara sipping Santa Barbara. Anything else you want to add up is this is our last Chardonnay episode on Santa Barbara County. Really? Yeah. Okay, I'm going to hang out in the cellar after this. I'll just bring through everything. So guys, you can tell how much Serene loves Chardonnay. I love Chardonnay from Santa Barbara. And White Birkin. So guys, if you like this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel, exotic wine travel. I will see you next episode.