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Wine Scores
Below is a listing of the wine review scores we frequently reference in our notes. While these sources remain an excellent source of information, we always recommend that you trust your own palate. Scores in these publications often represent the personal taste of an individual critic, which may not always coincide with your own. We have a huge team of excellent wine professionals that can match wines you've had in the past with new arrivals that meet your flavor profile.
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2010 Palmina Santa Barbara County Barbera
Review Date: 3-17-2013
I do love a California Barbera, and this one does not disappoint. Plum, blackberry, cocoa, cassis, black currant, faint hints of saddle leather. Plush, pretty fruit but with high acidity and medium tannins with a long, lingering finish. Perfect for cocktail hour with appetizers (try this wine with Parmigano Reggiano cheese- it's insanely good!) or with a braised pork dish. Delish!
Price: $20.99
2012 Palmina Santa Barbara County Pinot Grigio
Review Date: 3-17-2013
Winemaker Steve Clifton has created a really special Pinot Grigio with the 2012 vintage. All stainless steel, with a cold ferment using only Epernay yeast, and unusual use of lees stirring lends a baked bread character to this lovely wine. Lime zest, toast, citrus, mineral with medium plus acidity and a surprising richness. Not your Grandma's Pinot Grigio!Gorgeous.
Top Value!
Price: $15.99
2009 Tatomer "Vandenberg" Santa Barbara County Riesling
Review Date: 3-17-2013
Graham Tatomer worked with Austrian Winemaker Emmerich Knoll for three years, and this Vandenberg Riesling shows the quality and signature of Austrian riesling. The Vandenberg is 90% fruit from the Kick On Ranch, and 10% fruit from the Sisquoc Ranch property. There was botrytis in the second pass of picking of this fruit, so the wine has an interesting apricot/honey/Botrytis notes to it- though the wine is dry. Citrus, white flowers, apple, green fruit with a pretty perfume and clean finish. Medium plus juicy acidity. Delicous for Riesling lovers worldwide!
Price: $23.99
2009 Tatomer "Kick-On Ranch" Santa Barbara County Riesling
Review Date: 3-17-2013
Graham Tatomer knows what he is doing with Riesling in Santa Barbara County. Don't believe me? Try this incredible wine! The wine spends a year in neutral oak in the winery, followed by another year in bottle before release. White stone fruit, white flowers, citrus and slately minerality with medium plus acidity.
Price: $28.99
2007 Palmina Santa Barbara County Nebbiolo
Review Date: 3-17-2013
Steve Clifton has great skill with Nebbiolo in Santa Barbara County. A very varietally correct wine, which spends 3 years in oak and one year in bottle before release from the winery. Red roses, red cherry, mineral, saddle leather, with high acidity and medium plus tannins. With air, and some fabulous Italian fare, this wine is very friendly & accessible now, but I would be thrilled to see what another 5 years would do! Wow!
Price: $27.99
2011 Palmina Santa Ynez Valley Malvasia Bianca
Review Date: 3-17-2013
Astonishing is the word that came to mind upon first inhale of the aroma of this beautiful Malvasia Bianca. Intensely aromatic and delivering onto the palate with lychee, apricot, citrus, white flowers and a fresh minerality. This wine has a fantastic zesty acidity will make you keep reaching to for your glass. Stunning & delicious!
Price: $26.99
2010 Ancient Peaks Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon
Review Date: 3-16-2013
The Margarita vineyard where these grapes come from is on a part of the ranch known as "Oyster Ridge". The name comes from the ancient oyster fossils which are very unusually right at the surface of the soil. This part of the land used to be 50 feet under the surface of the ocean! Blackberry, plum, red cherry, black currant, vanilla with medium plus acid and medium plus tannin. A wonderfully fruity Cab with great structure from a historic place! Incredible value- fabulous for parties!
Top Value!
Price: $13.99
2010 Ancient Peaks Paso Robles Zinfandel
Review Date: 3-16-2013
Blackberry, fig, raisin, sweet vanilla, spice with medium acid and medium tannin. Ancient Peaks' signature wine is their Zin, and this vintage shows the powerfully epxressive fruit they are known for. A very, very well-made Zin at a ridiculously fantastic price! Snap up for summer BBQs!
Top Value!
Price: $13.99
2010 Ancient Peaks Paso Robles Merlot
Review Date: 3-16-2013
Red raspberry, spice, balck currant, black berry with medium acid and medium tannin. This is the Merlot to change your opinion about California Merlot, trust me. A GREAT value!
Top Value!
Price: $13.99
2011 Ancient Peaks Paso Robles Sauvignon Blanc
Review Date: 3-16-2013
Citrus, Bartlett pear, mineral, with medium plus acid. Insanely quaffable!
Top Value!
Price: $11.99
2010 Riecine Chianti Classico
Review Date: 2-18-2013
This Chianti Classico really knocked my socks off at a recent staff tasting! Incredible purity of fruit, withmore structure showing in the 2010 vintage. Blackberrt, red cherry, cassis, red currant and mineral with medium plus acidity and medium tannin. A fabulous choice for drinking now, or tucking away for a few years. This Chianti has great bones! Watch out, though- the staff all fell head over heels for this one- we might just buy it all first!
Top Value!
Price: $23.99
2010 Dashe Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel
Review Date: 2-18-2013
Absolutely gorgeous Zinfandel from Dry Creek Valley! Red currant, red plum, blackberry, red cherry- quintessential Dry Creek goodness! The best vintage from Dashe yet!
Price: $22.99
2010 Gain Bay Lake County Cabernet Sauvignon
Review Date: 2-18-2013
Red cherry, black plum, medium plus acidity and easy tannins- juicy, friendly and very drinkable! If you love a great Cabernet value, look to Lake County, just north of Napa- at $16.99, you really can't go wrong! Buy by the case for parties!
Top Value!
Price: $16.99
2009 Von Hövel Estate Kabinett
Review Date: 2-16-2013
The richness of the 2009 vintage in Germany shows in this lovely Kabinett from Von Hovel- however, the acidity is perfect and the wine is balanced and delightfully quaffable. Stone fruit, green apple, citrus and zippy minerality with medium-plus acidity and a long finish, and just 8.5% abv. At $12.99, it would do to snap up as much of this as you can. Great for entertaining- it would be nice as an aperitif wine with nibbly bits like cheese, nuts & olives, with fish, chicken, spicy Thai or Indian food- or even on a warm spring evening by itself!
Top Value!
Price: $12.99
2008 Mas Codina Cava Brut Reserva Penedès
Review Date: 2-2-2013
Apple, citrus and mineral- a tasty, juicy, well-made Cava for sure! Hand-riddled and in the traditional method for $12.99? Are you kidding? This is an amazing value! Stock up for parties and to have a bottle of bubbly in your fridge at the ready for a special occasion- or a Tuesday night just because! Delish!
Top Value!
Price: $12.99
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