 Welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Horky. Hi, I'm Shereen Tan. Welcome back to the show. Today, we're gonna talk about... We're gonna talk about single vineyard sorras from Santa Barbara County. We are very excited. These are three highly, highly scored coveted wines. Very good producers. We're gonna get into these. Before we do, I want to let you know that this video has not been paid for in any way, shape, or form. If you do like this video, if it does add value to you, check out our guide to the wines of Santa Barbara called Sipping Santa Barbara. I recommend it once and produce. It's available on Kindle, EPUB, and PDF. I will put it up on the screen. Let's get started. Woo! We poured wines already into glasses using our Corvin Model 2 Elite. Thank you so much to Corvin for giving us a sample unit 2 test. That was awesome. We poured into these a beautiful, beautiful, Gabrielle Glass Gold Edition hand-blown glasses. These are awesome. Lighter than Zalto. Super nice to swirl. I will actually have a discount code for these glasses at the end of the video. We're not affiliated. We don't get anything. Let's get into this. It's been Santa Barbara County famous for Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, but it also has been identified as possibly the best place in California for Sera. It has the oldest Sera vines in California, I believe, right? Yes. It was planted by Zacameza. We have three excellent producers here. These wines are not cheap. These wines are of higher quality. I'm really looking forward to getting into them. You ready to get into them? Very mad. Okay. First, we have a very famous producer, the Ohai Vineyard. This is the Sera from John Sebastiano Vineyard in San Francisco Hills, 2014. Adam Tolmok and Fabian Castell are the winemakers. Very famous guy. I'm excited. You excited about tasting this, sir? You love Pinot Noir coming out of John Sebastiano Vineyard, right? Correct. Absolutely. So I don't think I'm just excited. We have not tasted this vintage yet. Let's give this a little bit of first of all, this Sera must use stem inclusion. It's not super dark in color. It is dark, but not pitch black. Let's give this a smell. One of these Robert Parker actually called one of the Ohai Vineyard Sera's. One time I can't remember which vineyard it was, but he said it was more like a premier crew burgundy, red burgundy. Actually, let's give this a smell. I can see why. A lot of red fruit for me. Yeah, a lot of red. It doesn't kind of act like a Pinot Noir. I actually went and first smelled it. I thought that the wine is a little bit close because I got a cherry, a little bit of violet, but it's and earth and earth to me. Really, I don't find this shy off and this beautiful meat. Definitely. I get a lot of violet. I realized it where we have to concentrate. These wines are highly pedigreed wines. You can tell I'm like getting in the mood here. These smell the smells elegant, beautiful. Let me give this a little bit of a go. Oh, it smells. That's good. The tenants. Oh my, this is smooth, elegant. This wine right now is is like knacking my socks off right now. I think this wine is fun. I'm like, oh, what do you think? He was so excited right next to me and I didn't get it seriously based on the nose. Aren't you I tasted the wine? Really beautiful. This wine is phenomenal to me. I would put this at 4.5 out of five flavors sipping through every bit on the top. This is not a huge massive sara. It's more medium-bodied. It's not not for somebody looking for a big huge fruit bomb with big tannins ripping your face off. This is elegant, high drinkability. This is a beautiful answer. Wow. Two things. Fruit intensity and tannins. I can't get over four point five out of five for me. This is I mean, this is not just killer wine, right? Killer wine. Woo. Good job, Adam Tolmach. Oh, excellent. You want to save that? Just one sip. Okay, let's move on. This is one of Shireen's favorite producers, Samsara. Samsara just actually went under new ownership Dave and Joan Shkutak, right? They're this and they hired Matt Brady. I'm sorry to remember the names, all the names. The former wine maker of Jaffers, but this is from when Chad Melville was making the wine, Samsara. This is the Sera Zotovich vineyard from two thousand and thirteen ringing in at forty US dollars. The Ojai vineyard was forty five. This was, this ranks in at fourteen point one percent alcohol, only 190 cases produced and just from four rows of the Zotovich vineyard. I'm partial to Samsara. It's just, there's not a single wine from them that I dislike. In fact, I love, love every single one of their wine. We just polished off a bottle of Samsara Grenache last night, Larner Vineyard, which was beautiful. All right, let's give this a little bit of a go. That's a black fruit, plum. Earth. This is a little bit more burlier than but not burly in any way, shape, or form. Uh beautiful nose. Coffee. Coffee. White pepper. This to me, this to me tastes like the Cataluña Sera that we had. Uh huh. Oh, remember? Like a Verizon. Yeah. Great Cataluña Sera that we had. This is not, this Samsara has a house making style. They still have some bramble fruit. Let me give this, let me give this a little bit of a go. I love how every single one of their wine is always so drinkable, so approachable even at such a young age. I mean, this is not young but this is a new release but it's really spicy, medium body, tans are a little firmer than in the ohai vineyard. Super hydrink ability. Gosh, these watermelons are really good. I love the grip of the tannins. I'm gonna actually swallow a little bit. There's no, there's no spitting for me here. This is, wow. This is for more of the people that like the typical California grapefruit, I think this is more of a Europe, if you like more European style wines, I would have to say. Right? Yeah. It's good though. The acidity for this stands out a lot for me as well. Very bright, beautiful, refreshing, clean finish. 4.4 out of 5 for me. I think there's, it's just a matter of preference. I prefer the ohai a little bit more but dang, this is good wine. You ready to move on? Yeah. All right. Another legendary producer, Zacameza. This is the Chapel G Sera from 2013. Winemaker, Eric, is it Mosheny? Mosheny. Mosheny. Sorry. Is the current winemaker there? He planted this block of Sera when he got on board. It has a little bit of Vionia in it. Adam Tomak actually worked for Zacameza at one point in time. This has 3% Vionia co-fermented into it so it's acting like a coat roti, wines that I love and don't get enough of because they're super rare. Let's give this a go. Excuse me for, let's see if we have anything else here. 48 US dollars. This is the Frenchie that I know. Wow. This is very, these are three single vineyard Sera's that are acting very different. Zacameza, this is from their estate vineyard. This is one of their top wines besides the bare block Sera. Zacameza wines always have tons of violet so it's even a little perfumey to me. This is, yeah, the color perfumey, yeah. It makes me want to eat. This smells great. Zacameza wines to me always smell like berry smoothies. Like if you go a smoothie king, if you're in the States or you're getting fresh smoothie, if you're getting a berry smoothie with blueberries, raspberries, cherries, all that kind of stuff, strawberries, that's what you're going to get. This is smooth. Really? Really smooth. Wow. Very polished. Very polished effort. A little bit of tangerine peel on the back end. It's funny how we lined this up. I did not mean it. This is the lightest in body. Me and my, this is the fullest in body. I says bigger tans, bigger body, but yet it's still silky smooth. What do you think about this effort from Zacameza? These are all, I mean, outstanding wines. Orange peel, I get it on the finish, but this is definitely very blackfruit driven, really much bigger wine. Love it. I love the little Velloni. It adds a little bit of touch to it. What do you, what do you prefer? I mean for me, it's so hard. 4.5, 4.4, I think 4.4 ish, 4.3. All the good wines. Let's get this straight first because all the producers that we are featuring, we are really, we already put them in the book, which means that we filter out the very best. So all of these wines are made by wine makers and producers that we love. Yeah, we know that it's going to be good wines already. Oh, loving, loving these three wines. Anything you, what do you prefer right now? This is by far the hardest episode for me to choose my favorite one. Really? Yeah. I, I think all this three comes really close. I would have this with rips. By itself. By itself. I really want to enjoy the Sardin Wences. First of all. Anytime. I don't know, they're all good wines. So guys, I'm gonna put the discount code for the GoPro Plus up on the screen. You can get 15% off the standart glass, which is machine blown and the Alpha Decanter. We are not affiliates. We don't get anything from it. Just are, just extending an offer out to you. So, if you like this episode. Yeah, wait, check out, check out our guide to the wines of Santa Barbara, Sipping Santa Barbara. I will put it in the description box. Check out these three wines, please. There's, I mean, these are, these are Ohai Vineyard Samsara, Zaka Mesa, three outstanding producers. A little bit bigger production. This has a little bit more, I mean, national distribution. These two, you'll have to go to the websites to check them out. Anything else you want to add to this? No, so if you taste this wine, we would love to hear from you what you think. Yeah, put it in the description box. So, guys, if you like this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Exotic Wine Travel. 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