 Welcome back to exotic wine travel. I am your host Matthew Horky. Hi, I'm Shereen Tan Welcome back to the show today We are getting into some Rhone Reds from Santa Barbara County where I'm excited about this episode you He's really excited. I'm excited too Anyways, but before we get started I want to let you guys know that this video has not been paid for it Anyway shape or form, but if you do find value in these videos, we're shooting on Santa Barbara County Check out our guide to the wines of Santa Barbara County called sipping Santa Barbara Recommend a wines and produce. Let's get in this to this today. We are we Corvina I used the Corvina to access all these wines Corvina Model 2 Elite Thank you Corvina for actually a sponsoring unit unit letting us use it on the show and we poured in these beautiful Gabriel Gabriel Gabriel glass gold edition glasses hand blown There will be a discount code for Gabriel Glass Stemware at the end of the video So Grenache, ooh, I love this grip. I think more than you do Grenache, you know, actually famous for Famous for producing being a big component of the great wines of Shetnaf Which you love, which I like very much, but you know for all Santa Barbara County There's a lot of grapes that do well Probably Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are the most famous in the area But Roan grapes, especially soda and Grenache gaining traction, right? Exactly, especially actually the other day we were talking to our Croatian wine writer friend And when we mentioned that we're doing an episode about Santa Barbara or an episode series He said ooh the zero there is great and I was really surprised I mean, I thought I thought he would say Pinot Noir or Chardonnay But it looks like Sarah and also Grenache heard about it quite a couple of times from other people as well It looks like both grids are gaining traction. What if Miles would have been crazy and sideways about Sarah Grenache? Let's get into the some of the wines today the first one I am very excited about this is the Lumen Grenache 2015 Santa Barbara County This only 600 cases are produced aged in neutral oak But made just in the style of Pinot Noir the winemaker Lane Tonner is one of the first independent female winemakers Here in Santa Barbara, right? Yeah, she just started working with this label. This label is fairly new Crafting some nice wines at low prices. I'm excited to taste this vintage. We have not had this vintage, right? 30 US dollars Let's give this First of all the first thing that I know this is is very Pinot in color. It's very very light I don't know if you can see. Do you know if this is whole class? Yeah, you can see this I don't know if this is whole cluster fermentation I would guess this is whole class. We'll have to get back to that. I don't know Let's give this let's let's uh, let's give this a go first the first Grenache In Santa Barbara County to me depending on where it's going. Whoa Looked out at the look of happy fun. Y'all This is very Grenache very strawberry candy cherry Cinnamon white pepper I get the cinnamon What cinnamon more than the white pepper not earthy like old-world Grenache more bright fruit, but very delicious So like what do you say? But you want to give it what do you think what you're picking up? I'm getting a little bit of a green note to it that I'm still trying to figure out what it is Well, let's give this a little bit ago Nice move in the mouth with good grip and partners This is a wine that's gonna appeal to a lot of people right? It's gonna be a crowd-pleasing wine Lot of juicy red fruit Tannins are easy tans are easy going I get a little bit of a white pepper go for people there's there are complexities here for some people that want them Yeah, but what else do you think the finishes has a little bit of rose note to it as well What are you are you okay on this wine you really enjoy and it's well made wine but for your palette profile you liking it a lot or Happy with it. Okay. Yeah, but I still think that can be great. Yeah, I still think this is very good from Lane Good job. She's got crazy colorful hair for me. I'm 4.0 on this wine. I think it's very good I think for me, it's more of a crowd-pleaser. I think that everybody's kind of gonna kind of like this one I Don't think so Let's move on famous producer Very famous new vintage. This is the Beckman vineyards Grenache from Santa Ines Valley 2016 I 900 cases produced Two different clones. I know this was I know this was aged in neutral oak So let's give this a go. He is Beckman is more famous for his surah. I'm excited I have not had the 2016 Beckman wines are big fruity and bold. I'm excited because I heard 2016 and Santa Barbara was a was a Year where there's a little bit more acidity in the wines. So let's give this a go I believe that in this vintage most of the fruit from this came from his Parisma mountain vineyards, which are Biodynamic, let's give this just exactly the back mended. I remember Yeah, it's like this is right right right through the intensity really hits you in the face You can I can almost taste or smell the food flavor and it travels up by Like to my forehead or something along that line for me This is like extremely ripe strawberry cherry when you say a ton of cherry cranberry Hmm Brown oak smell to it, too This is quite complex is 32 US dollars. This is kind of an entry-level offering Maybe brown sugar Let's give this let's give this a little bit ago. It's very good. I underestimate I have to say Some of Beckman's entry-level wines. I would Beckman vineyards. I was not fans of in the past Like this I got a lot of licorice and white pepper on this this has more tannic grip than the lumen This is good stuff It's to me. This is this is the kind of wine. It's easily gonna get 90-something points I think this is for me 4.2 already and Vivino A little bit more burly I would have to say nice stuff really good stuff You ready to move on? Yeah, let's move on So we have a wine that shireen a winery that shireen is crazy about We have a samsara. This is the Grenache from the larner vineyard 2013 I've loved every single wine by samsara samsara. So basically yeah, you love you love these wine Samsara started by Chad Melville who has moved back on to his family vineyards Melville It's now owned by Joan and Dave Sukutak If I can get that right and they brought on they brought on Matt Brady Who was the former winemaker at Jaffers and they were a long time mailing with subscribers and they plan to keep the same style For samsara wine. So let's give this a go. Shall we? Shireen is a big fan of the samsara single vineyard Pinot Noir, especially the Cargassaki vineyard, right? Let's give this a little bit of a smell here It's so interesting. These three wines are really different These are all totally different. This is This is love. This is Santa Maria though. This is from Santa Maria Valley. For me Santa Maria wines are leaner Lamorra city This is like Australian fans will like it, but it has it's it's not a simple one has complexity This is a more old-worldy. When you say In terms of body the mouth you I haven't tasted it, right? But I would guess this is something in between the two for me. I get a lot of pepper and cool It's all it's almost like if I had strawberries with cool whip And I put white pepper over the top of it with a little bit of earth And this really has the salinity that I get from Santa Barbara County, right? I get mint as well. Yeah. Oh, I Am very excited today. So let's give this a go. Oh, it's peppery What do you think of that one? Oh, this is spicy. Yeah This is so for fans of European European wines little leaner wines I would like about Santa Barbara's the wines are not too big and fruity and over the top, but Man, I don't like I like this wine a lot. You thought for my palette. This is more my style as well There's a little bit of blue food notes to it, too They even took a little bit of a while. I think I'm I'm 4.3 on this wine. I think I think this is really darn good I mean if anyone who doesn't like good, I should totally taste this wine and be your sense. Green Ash Not cheaper at all. This is 40 us dollars with 30 32 40. We had different experiences I don't think with any of these wines are going to be disappointed all good wines, but Wow, anything that you want to add on granache good showing my granache Anything you want to add? Well, we're going to flash the discount code for gabrio glasses on the screen right there There for their their standard art their machine blown glasses And for some of their decanters and I will put the link in the description box Guys, uh, check out our guide to the wines of Santa of Santa Barbara County. Thanks for watching And if you like this episode, please subscribe to our youtube channel exotic wine travel. I will see you at the next episode