The 2013 starts a new program producing 100% vineyard designated Sangiovese from 40 year old vines in Oak Savanna Vineyard in Los Olivos, CA. 

Aged in 860L French Oak barrels, the layered floral notes, and spiced red fruits from this vineyard are balanced with an old vine structured midpalate & integrated fine tannin. 

Drink 2019-2027

13.2% alcohol  

140 cases produced

Tasting Panel Blue Reviews: 91pts

Wine Enthusiast: 91pts

Schaefer on Wine: "This Cabernet has already spent more than 4 years total in barrel and bottle but it's still just a baby. Great nose of cassis, black currant, and dark berry fruit. Rich and effusive on the palate, it's the dark star of the lineup with plum, blackberry, barrel spice, and lavender in the flavor mix. Lengthy and sustaining flavors last all the way to the full-bodied finish. Delightful to drink now, it will really show its stuff with another 5 or 10 years in the bottle." Dennis Schaefer SB News Press 06/14/18

Blue Lifestyle Blue Reviews - 92 pts  August 2018

"Ripe with luscious plum notes, and a creamy texture;rich and nicely structured;deep, mellow and balanced."

Wine Enthusiast - 91pts

To say the entire 2011 year, vintage & resulting wines were a "challenge" would possibly be the understatement of the year.

In December 2011, after harvest, our second child arrived and she was perfect & balanced.  I was dreading having to one day explain to her why there wasn't a commemorative birth year namesake wine, as there was for her big brother.  

Lucky for me, and for her, the 2011 wines finally sorted themselves out with a little extended barrel age, and eventually became phenomenal!

There wasn't much tonnage to start with in 2011.  I very carefully selected the best of the best.

59% Sierra Madre Vineyard Pommard clone 

41% Premier Vineyard Dijon clone 115 

Aged in both 228L & 320L 100% new French Oak barrels for 30 months. 

A very exotic spice, silky fruit driven vintage with impeccable fruit to acid balance.

13.5% Alcohol by volume. 

92 cases produced.

Wine Enthusiast 93pts 

Saviezza - (An old Italian word for “wisdom” or “knowledge”) A Santa Barbara super-Tuscan styled proprietary blend

90% Sangiovese Tepusquet Vineyard in the Santa Maria bench.
5% Cabernet Franc Tierra Alta Vineyard in Los Olivos.
5% Cabernet Sauvignon Casa Blanca Vineyard in Los Olivos.

The 2010 is the third vintage labeled as “Saviezza”, but my 10th vintage of Sangiovese from the old Tepusquet Vineyard in the Santa Maria bench.  Planted in 1971 to Cabernet Sauvignon, it was grafted in the early nineties to Sangiovese.  Yield was less than 2 tons per acre.

Harvest: 10/22/10 

The Sangiovese clone 3 was picked after six days of rain! The vintage was a cooler later one, producing very small berries and small clusters. I performed a saigne to bleed off some juice in the fermenter before the cold soak and fermentation began.

General style of vintage: The 2010 wines are big and bold with dark fruits, smooth and lots of spice, great structure with some integrated tannins. 

Aromatics: Ripe black plums, blackberry fruit, cola, anise, cinnamon spice with a hint of sweetness from oak.

Body: Ripe dark fruit flavors and intense warm spices fill the mid palate,. The tannin is fantastically integrated with the fruit, forming a bigger structured wine than normal.  This ball of fruit & spice carries into the finish. 

Although this vintage has the exact same percentages & same fruit sources as the preceding 2008, and 2009 it is a different wine.  It’s more like the 2008 than the 2009. Aging took place in Seguin Moreau French oak 500L puncheons for the first time. The extra time in barrel and tank, the 2010 has successfully married together the three grape varieties seamlessly to become its own personality.

Enjoy the 2010 with an Osso Bucco, or with a spaghetti bolognese. 

Now through 2023.

**Please serve at 58°-62°F (20 minutes in the refrigerator before drinking.)