 Welcome back to exotic wine travel. I am your host Matthew Horky. Hi, I'm Shereen Tan Welcome back to the show today. We have single vineyard Pinot Noir's from Santa Barbara County. I know you're excited about this episode, right? Before we get started I want to let you guys know that this video has not been paid for in any way shape or form But if you do like these videos if you find value in them check out our guide to the wines of Santa Barbara County They're downloadable book called sipping Santa Barbara Recommended wines and producers. All right before we get started So we basically we Corvind all these wines with our Corvind model to elite Thank you to Corvind for giving us a test sample to use into these beautiful Gabrielle gold Handblown glasses, right? Very nice I will have a discount code up at the end of the video for some Gabrielle glass stemware ready to get started Bona Bona Corsi, I don't know I would say Bona Corsi producer that we respect and like very much started by Michael and Jenny Lee Bona Corsi Michael was actually a top. I think he was a master sommelier X in LA Yes, I think he was and but he did after they established the winery He did pass from a heart attack his wife late wife Jenny Lee now takes care of the winemaking. She makes all the wines Very makes very elegant wines These wines are kind of exact opposite of some of the big sanitary the hills Pinoir that you come across when you say Yeah, yeah much more a lot of restraint on the nose extremely elegant structure And you know, they're all beautiful for aging and we have and we have tasted some 2010 which which was coming on beautiful We have three different wines three different vineyards and three different vintages. You ready to get started Let's go with the youngest first. We have the Bona Corsi John Sebastian of vineyard from 2014 you are a big fan of the wines that come out of this vineyard, right? Correct me too Let's give this a little bit ago. First of all beautiful beautiful true Pino Noir esque color Lighter in color. Let's give this a smell You know what I like about these glasses is you don't need a lot of wine to smell Yeah, exactly, and it's very easy to soar because that's like this. Oh gosh, this is exact I love these wines all 45 US dollars not cheap. I know definitely not cheap, but for single vineyard high quality Pino Noir Think it's not too shabby. What do you what do you pick up on this much more floral a little bit of blue food But lots of violet Strawberry for me cool whip kind of like a cool Whip creamy flavor which I like Beautiful beautiful nose ruby. Let's give this perfume to Lighter body on the palette. I'm sorry earth. You're on the palette and I wouldn't taste to it sensation Tight and linear right now on the palate But that's what I appreciate about that wine because I can't wait to see in a few more years how it's going to unwind itself It I It's really beautiful because this is not big huge These are not big huge extracted Pino Noir So sometimes you come across in the Santa Rita Hills, which we have no problem with sometimes those wines are fun, but this is Beautiful elegant stuff. What do you think? Yeah, the structure is incredible. I am as of right now I'm 4.4 out of 5 on this. I think it's a fun. I think it's a phenomenal Pino Noir You ready to move on You kind of dump it in here to save it Okay, let's move on shall we we have the Bonacorsi fiddle sticks vineyard owned by Kathy Joseph from fiddle head 2013 Pino Noir this one has a little bit darker color. Don't you see? Color I don't know if you can pick that up just slightly a little bit darker color. Let's give this a go Shall we? This is definitely less floral than the previous This is more perfume and floral. This is more earth right away on the palette, which I'm digging right away Yes, a little rocks now to it Beautiful strawberry This is beautiful. This is nice, right? What do you think? Yeah? Let's give this a little bit of a go. Shall we the previous structure is a little bit more from that this point Because that's 2014 by the 2013 it's broader More expressive shows a little bit more wood to to me. Okay. Do you don't pick it up? Oh, yeah on the finish. Yeah spicy or finish. This is a this is a little more masculine. This is a little bit more feminine to me What do you think am I wrong? Sorry, I don't know this is because the wood to me makes it a little burlier This one is a little bit more delicate that these are what you can see as we're talking These are definitely what contemplation wines Which one are you enjoying more for me I care a lot about the structure of Pinot Noir, but I like both but currently right now on first If I'm more into this this one, I think this has more texture to it at this point They'll and broader mid-palate Tenants are a little bit creepy in the 2013 as well. I'm not gonna I'm just gonna stick by my guns. This one has more wood some more tannins I think is more a little bit masculine to me. This one's more delicate feminine I'm about 4.2 on this. I still think it's very good wine 4.4 on this one both good wines to start, right? Let's get let's move on. Shall we we have next the Bonacorsi? 2012 Melville vineyard 2012 Melville is down highway 246 There's an estate called the Melville estate which Shireen likes very much, right? There's some good cool fruit coming out. There's some nice saraas as well Let's give this a little bit of a sniff. Shall we 2012? This is the scent of abura. You don't know what I know. This is a little bit richer a little bit more riper the cherry is up All the way you like it, right? I like it There's some grassy tone a little still a little bit of early tones over there, but it's like fruit first For me, it's more like these are strawberry. This is cherry. That's it Let's center in Santa Rita Hills to me more cherries earth Some cool. So I like this the food intensity is very high in this Nice texture. This is a little bit more fruity. These are obviously this earthy more have more floral perfume notes What do you think about this? Are you enjoying it as much? This actually has more powerful intense aroma Fruit flavor and in fact as of now this has longer food finish. Where is this as more tannic finish? I'm still gonna stick with It's so funny. This is the first time we actually agree. I'm 4.4 4.3 4.2 But all good. Oh, you think this is 4.3 and this is 4.2 Yeah, but this is very good wine But for me right now, I'm in this phase. We're not enjoying the wood so much if that's super woody It's not oaky, but I can definitely feel the oak tannins at the end Okay I'm just thinking about how long this wines can age especially this chill good showing by Jen E. Lee Jenny they born of coursey her wines are elegant Super well made. I mean, they're just beautiful wine There's not a single one that we tasted by her that we haven't liked. Yeah, we'd like to her Melville Chardonnay a lot too, right? Wow, so check it out anything else you want to add on Bonacorsi center later hills Oh, I think it's important to mention that the first time we tasted this wine was a taste of Sanderita Hills and Long Pot wine ghetto. Yeah, so we have to thank Antonio and Jenny more that tea Yeah, because these wines are quite difficult to to get so she doesn't there's no tasting room You have to taste them at taste of Sanderita Hills Well, you guys I will put the the discount code for the Gabriel glass up on the screen Eligible for 15% off the standard machine blown glass and the alpha the canter We are not affiliates. We don't get anything out of it. It's just us extending an offer to you Check out our guide sipping santa Barbara. Check out bonacorsi. That's about it, right? Guys, if you like this video, please subscribe to our youtube channel exotic wine travel. We'll see you at the next episode