 Oh, welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Horkey. Hi, I'm Sherene Tan. Welcome to the show. This is the first video in our series about the wines of Santa Barbara County, which we're so excited about. Just to let you know, this video has not been paid for in any way, shape or form. So if you like these videos, you find value in them, check out our guide to the wines of Santa Barbara County called Sipping Santa Barbara, Recommended Wines. And producers. We've got three wines here. We've poured them all from the Corvin Model 2 Elite. Thank you so much Corvin for giving us a sample unit to try into Gabriel Glass. These are hand blown glasses and we will have a discount code for Gabriel Glass at the end of the video. So. You can take a look. Oh, super light. Really thin, stem. Very sexy. Let's get started. Rhone White Wines today. Santa Barbara has grows so many different types of grapes. There's so many grapes there. That's where I found it fascinating, right? When we first went there. Yeah. When we spend our days over there, it was just a new experience every day because there's so many producers and so many different kinds of grapes. And more importantly as well, the grapes express itself so differently in the different vineyards. Yeah. It's a very vineyard specific that is the county. Let's get into some of the wines. We've got first, the Coupe Marsan from 2015. This is 75% Marsan and 25% Rusan to add some acidity. Coupe, Bob Lindquist is the owner, wine maker, legendary producer in the area, makes a lot of wine. And let's give it a shot. Even though Santa Barbara is famous for Seraja, Grenache, Rhone Reds, you don't see a ton of variety of wines, right? Yeah, I'd agree with you. Let's give this a little bit. Oh, these glasses, feel nice, right? Really gorgeous nose. This is entry, this is entry level wine from Coupe, running in at about 25 US dollars. What you picking up on the nose here? White peach, a little bit of stone as well. Lemon. Lemon lime citrus notes to it. I think this is partially barrel fermented, stainless steel as well. What do I like about Marsan? You got me into Marsan Rusan, remember? You got me into them. I like the stoniness. And I think the Rusan really stands out here as well. It has that honey nose to it. Let's give this a go. Let's start the show with us. It's really full in the mouth. And the acidity is beautiful. Yeah, Marsan really struggles with acidity. And this is really bringing some heat for a 25 dollar entry level wine, don't you think? Yeah, but yours is 50. I'd imagine maybe in a year or so, it might gain some spicy nose there. There's a little bit of the new ones to it at the end palette now. For me, this is really impressive. It's going to be hard to score all the wines when we do this video series because all the wines are going to be pretty darn good. This is a good start for me. I'm already 3.94 out of the 4.0 out of this. I think this is an excellent, I'm going to even take a little sip. Good start, right? Let's see how the rest will go. This was one of Sirene's favorite wines when we were first in Santa Barbara. This is the Zaka Mesa Rouson from 2013. Also 25 US dollars. This was barrel fermented and aged in French oak for 10 months. Let me see if I got that right. French oak, yeah. Sirene loved this Rouson Zaka Mesa. Really, Zaka Mesa, one of the legendary producers in Santa Barbara, the third, I think the third winery in Santa Barbara or the second started after a prohibition. Focuses on Rhone grapes. Bob Linguist, the owner of Coupe actually worked there as many other famous winemakers did. I see you're getting right into the line. I was getting lost and I know why I was trying to follow him. As you know, Rouson, Marson, shot enough to pop white, coat the Rhone, white, Southern Rhone. That's what you're going to get. Let's give this, wow. They're all integrated, right? That's amazing. Oh, for me, it's like perfect oak integration, lemon, stone, this like explosive peach note. A little bit of yellow flower notes to it too. This is nice, right? Let's give this a go. What you think? It's really nice, I said it to you. You know, that's why I like Marson and Rouson. It makes me want to listen to classical music. It just beats at a very different pace in your mouth. This is really nice wine. This is obviously a step up. You can tell there's a little more expensive wood on it. But this is also, man, this is pretty nice stuff. I'm going to take a sip off this. It's a little oaky. It is a little bit oaky. You need some time to integrate a little bit more. But man, if you're bored of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, some of the normal grapes, these brown white grapes are so excited and interesting. They're really worth checking out. I love the end palette especially. Like you said, the oak is too pretty strong right now. But it's more of a spicy, sweet notes to the finish. Okay, so I'm about 3.94 on this one. I'd probably say 4.1 on the Zacameza, Rouson. Zacameza was the first Santa Barbara wine that we ever had together, right? They're Sera, so good job. Very nice job. Let's move on. We have a step up here. We have the Coupe, same producer as the first one, Rouson. Be in the Cedil Hillside Estate Select from Santa Maria Valley. 40 US dollars for this barrel fermented Rouson. Are you ready to come? You want to rinse or do you want to use? No, I pour it up very clean. You just pour right over. I think that'd be good. So once again, this is more of a reserve bottle, 40 bucks. Coupe has this great label, Bob Lindquist is the owner, winemaker. I think Coupe's named after one of the local Indian tribe, Native American tribes there, or with some kind of word. Let's give this a go. Chris Santhanum hiding in the right cantaloupe. The Chris Santhanum just jumps out at me, right? It's actually totally different flavor profile than the Zacameza, Rouson, wouldn't you say? Yeah, I would say so. Chris Santhanum for me. I almost would think that this is picked later than this. Yeah, white tea, white tea, would you say? Let's give it a go. Yeah, there's tea notes to it. What you think? This has higher acidity, this is a Rouson that I actually am more familiar with. Yeah, right, this has some nice biting acidity. This to me tastes, this to me it has explosive, nice beauty. This to me tastes a little more Frenchy. Like Roni, I would think, it has a lot of wood. The only thing, this does have a lot of wood. I have to say that. I would like the wood to integrate a little bit better, but the finish, the fruit's fantastic. The finish is really long. What else do you wanna add on the? The Coupe just has this beautiful white tea Chris Santhanum for me. It's big body, it's not humongous. It's not like a big fat Chardonnay, but it's pretty darn big. Anything else? Yeah, it's quite creamy in the mouth. Good job, good job for good show. I'm gonna say I was 3.9, 4.1, I think about 4.0 on this wine. All very good wines, it's gonna be hard to score the wines as we do these videos, because they're all high quality. Anything else? Even for me, like this to me is the same quality, but it just depends on what kind of style I wanna have. Like do you want a little bit more wood, less acid? It's here, you want something a little bit more crisper, but still wood right here. So guys, yeah, come check out Rhone Whites are awesome. They're exciting. Like Shetanoff to Pop White is starting to get popular. Santa Barbara's a nice alternative. This is starting to taste like crème brûlée. You like it or not? You like? I'm very intrigued by it. Right now, I'm gonna put actually the discount code for the Gabrielle Glass on the screen with the website. I will put the website in the description box. Thanks, we don't get any, we're not affiliates of Gabrielle Glass, it's just us extending. It's nice that you like the glass and get it. Yeah, so check out our book, Sipping Santa Barbara and stay tuned for more videos on the wines of Santa Barbara County. Anything else you wanna add? Definitely. Guys, if you like this video, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and we will see you at the next episode.