 Welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Horkey. Hi, I'm Shurien Tan. Welcome back to this show today. We got another episode about some nice peanut oars from Santa Barbara County. You popped. Guys, before we get started, I wanna let you know that this video has not been paid for in any way, shape, or form, but if you do like these videos, if you get something out of it, check out our guide, The Wines of Santa Barbara Calls. Sepping Santa Barbara, recommended wines and produce. It's on Amazon, our website, Kindle, E-pop, PDF, all that kind of good stuff. Let's get into it. We have The Wines already extracted with our Coravin Model 2 Elite. Thank you to Coravin for giving us a test sample to use. We're pouring them into these by a beautiful Gabriel Gold Hand Blown Glasses, 95 grams, super light, and they actually have performed really well with all wine. Cabernet, whites, Pinot Noir, everything. Pinot Noir especially. Let's get into the show today. So we have three different Pinot Noirs. Pretty cool. We have two from Santa Maria Valley and one that's Appalachian Santa Barbara County, which is a blend of Santa Maria Valley, Santa Rita Hills. So shall we jump right into it? Please. As you know, Pinot Noir, there was a little film called Sideways that was all about Pinot Noir in Santa Barbara County. Needless to say, it is a fantastic place for Pinot Noir. Let's get into it. The first wine we have is the Lumin. 2015 Pinot Noir from Santa Barbara County, ringing in at 30 US dollars aged in Hungarian oak, 8% new Hungarian oak, 92% neutral, for you geeks clone 66777 and five. Let's get into it. So we picked this first because Lumin want, we just drank a per skill vineyard Lumin, Pinot Noir last night, which only goes out to the club, two barrels made it was awesome. Let's get into this. No is nice. Yeah. Yesterday it was more earthy, the pre-school video. This is very true. This is not just fruit, it's also spicy. It's Santa Maria Valley. It's raw spice, yeah. The center, I said that herbal spicy note I get in Santa Maria Valley I was talking about. I get lots of strawberry, maybe raspberry. No cranberries though. Some earthiness, but I think the herbalness comes out. Let's give this a go. I love the texture. Again, smooth. Ooh. Ooh, it's with some spice in the back. The finish is beautiful. Spicy, a little bit like cherry popsicle kind of taste. Lane Tanner's, you know, she's got a lot of experience with one of the first independent female winemakers in Santa Barbara County. I think this, in terms of Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir 30 bucks, I think this punches way above its, way above the belt. It's really spicy. It's really nice, nice texture. It's for, you know, it's like that nice middle ground. You have the Pinot Noir, the general majority of consumer Pinot Noirs that aren't very good. They're just light fruit. Then you have some that are moving into fruity. Then you have the super complex earthy ones. I think this lies somewhere in the middle. Yeah, yeah, I agree. It has a lot of complexity usually in the flavors and I like the acidity and lumen wine. For me and Vivino, we're gonna give it 4.2 out of five. I think it's something that easily scores in the 90 point range. Uncritical. You agree? Okay. You wanna take a little dump? Next one. We have a producer that we really, really, really like. We have the Dearberg Pinot Noir, Santa Maria Valley from the Dearberg Vineyard, single vineyard 2014. 40, four US dollars. If you recall, if you've been watching the shows, we did taste the Dearberg Drum Canyon. That was Santa Rita Hills. That was phenomenal. Much more expensive too. Let's give this Santa Maria Valley, Dearberg, Dearberg Vineyard wine, a little bit of cement. Tyler Thomas, the winemaker. They also have a sister property called Star Lane. Mary and Jim Dearberg, I think the owners. This is the name I watch out for, guys. These wines are getting big time scores from the press. I suspect the prices are gonna go up. Let's give this a go. First of all, a little bit darker color than the lumen. I know you don't care about color in Pinot Noir or reds for that matter, so more fruity on the nose. You think Dearberg is more fruity? What do you, you don't agree with me? I'm getting more secondary aroma from the barrel. I'm wrong. You're right. There's a little bit of spice, a little bit of vanilla. Sorry. That's why I have her around. She's a much sharper than I am. Picking up a little bit of the vanilla, the baking spice notes. This to me has slightly darker fruit. This is strawberry. I would go more sour cherries on this. Lumen has dancing acidity really bright. Whereas this has more tendons to hold back. So the backbone is more serious in the other. This is like all Dearberg's Starling wines are just really balanced. To me, like impeccably balanced. I'm really enjoying this wine a lot. This is also a wine because of its balance. I think I would want to even age it further and to see some more tertiary notes come out on this. I agree. Would you? I think in seriousness, maybe for me, I believe maybe a touch more 4.3 out of 5. I would put it in a vino. Both very good wines. If I'm drinking something tonight, I'm drinking a little bit. Right? Yeah. There is a bit of this vanilla cream soda taste on the finish that I like, but I want it to go away. I want it to evolve. So I agree to just keep it a while longer. Great. You want to move on? Anything else you want to say in Dearberg? The next is a wine. Shareen and I are very excited to try because we did not like the previous bitches the first time we tried. This is the Hartley-Astini hitching post Highliner Pinot Noir from Santa Barbara County, 2015. For you, hardcore sideways nerds like me, this is the wine that when Miles and Jack first meet her, she goes up to the bar after hours and she says, hey, can I have a Highliner please? And this is the wine. Source from Santa Maria Valley and Santa Rita Hills. Usually darker. Frank Astini is the winemaker. He's also the chef at the hitching post. Great burger. Meet chef, so he makes his wines, his Pinot is to be a little bit more extracted, rich, dense. I think to go with meats a little bit more. This obviously has darker color than these two, but not as dark as I remember the 2013. Do you know how long was it in the barrel? I know it's 70% new French oak. I don't know how long. I smell a lot of oak. I mean, this is the 13, I have to say. We did the cork dancer on the show, 2015, which was beautiful Pinot Noir, especially the price of screw cap. I'm hoping that I like this because the 13 I really didn't like in the Highliner. I could see where people would like it, but I didn't love it. I'm sorry, go ahead. This is a little bit culture specific, but it reminds me of Chassu that you get from Southeast Asia. Charred pork. I have to say, no, I'm gonna look so stupid because all the wines that we've tasted on the show I've liked, but all the wines are kind of really good, serious wines. This is 42 US dollars, although I think I've seen it retail a little bit less. I like the nose a heck of a lot, a heck of a lot. Actually, I don't pick up a ton of wood. For me, I definitely get the meatiness where you're coming from. It's all pure cherry and meat, to me, a lot of fall leaves. Vanilla. I'm liking this a lot more than I did. Is it good? The fruit intensity is very strong. You feel the wood on the palate, not ripping my face off, but red cherry juice, spice, touch of vanilla, the wood. You get the woody feel. I mean, this is the wine, I think that's gonna go a lot of people that like more Cabernet. They're not peanut or water. More extractable and richer. I'm not as high as on the Deerburg. I still am enjoying this very much. For me, I think on Vervino, I'll put probably about 4.1. I think I like it very much. What about, I've been blabbering away. What do you think? We don't go far. Because you hated this wine. So you didn't like this wine? I was disappointed because I was expecting a lot from it when I first tasted it. But now? Still, I like it better, but I would definitely have this wine with meat. I don't think I can do this wine alone because of the fruitiness in the mouth. This though, there's a certain charm. It's like the woman that puts the, unbuttons the blouse a little bit more. She's trying to pull you in a little bit. This is the fruitiness, the wood seducing you a little bit. It's a pretty good wine. I think I prefer the Deerburg in this flight the most. But still, if you like rich, fruity wine, this is definitely for you. Anything you want to add on these peonies of the waters? No, I don't. Good show. Good showing. So guys, oh, I forgot to mention the beginning of the video. We have a discount code for the Gabriel Glass Standard Edition and Alpha Decander. I will put it up on the screen right now. You get 15% off. Trust me, it's worth it. We're not affiliates in any way, shape, or form. It's just something nice, right? Check out our guide to the wines of Santa Barbara, recommended wines and producers. And guys, if you like this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Exotic Wine Channel, I will see you at the next episode.