Pinot Noir 4pk #2 Special
2013 Pinot Noir Santa Barbara County
2014 Pinot Noir Coteau Palmer
2009 Pinot Noir Cuvee Joshua Thomas
2011 Pinot Noir Cuvee Leah Mae
Regular Price: $174+tx
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2013 Pinot Noir Santa Barbara County
2014 Pinot Noir Coteau Palmer
2009 Pinot Noir Cuvee Joshua Thomas
2011 Pinot Noir Cuvee Leah Mae
Regular Price: $174+tx
2 X 2013 Pinot Noir Santa Barbara County
1 X 2014 Pinot Noir Coteau Palmer
1 X 2009 Pinot Noir Cuvee Joshua Thomas
Regular Price: $146.00
92 "Smooth and juicy, spicy and long with lush texture and a balanced finish; a lovely blend of six red varieties; rich and complex, long and deep." ADBlue, Blue Lifestyle (Tasting Panel)
Imagine Benjamin's Brain. Imagine Benjamin's Brain in a bottle. It's an insanely crazy blend of opposites that form magic when brought together.
2010, 2011 & a little 2013 Vintage: Red & Dark fruits, Spice, with a deep core of fruit. Perfect balance & a very versatile Red wine. Already a tasting room FAVORITE, top seller.
The Blend is mostly old vine Sangiovese from the Santa Maria Bench (49%)
Happy Canyon AVA See Clone Cabernet Sauvignon(31%) and Mourvedre (8%) Cabernet Franc (6%) Pinot Noir (3%) & Syrah (3%)
Sometimes, a big blend is better than the individual parts.
Alcohol: A Perfect 13.5%
Aged an average of 10 years, produced only once. A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Sangiovese, Cabernet Franc, Mourvedre and Syrah. This is a silky smooth operator that will make your tastebuds party all night long. It has class and elegance, it even has style. Whether you pair it with a stinky cheese or a sweet dessert, or if you pair it with itself, this wine is guaranteed to make new friends.
Blue Reviews: "Pale salmon hue; juicy and rich with a silky texture and tangy flavors. Showing more depth than your typical rosé, this is made in a vin gris style: whole cluster– pressed, barrel-fermented with proprietary yeast, and aged on the lees for ten months." - 91 points April 2020
Premiere Vineyard (Los Alamos) Swiss clone 2A Pinot Noir. 13.2% alc/vol
Located in the northern Los Alamos Valley, Premiere Vineyard is at the intersection of 101 North and Palmer Road. "Coteau Palmer" or "Palmer Hillside" is my own fanciful description of this block, tucked back in a canyon, on a steep sandy hill.
Planted to Swiss Clone 2A and Dijon Clone 115, the vines are now over 20 years old. The block faces southwest, and enjoys fantastic exposure all day while being sheltered by the surrounding hills. Yields barely reach 2 tons per acre, and the clusters and berries are very small.
Characteristics of the vintage:
The 2014 vintage wines showed the serious drought was in effect with a high ratio of skins to juice. These wines have a silky feel and an enormous, dense mid palate that will carry them for many years ahead. Whole cluster fermentation adds multi dimensional aromatics and extra tannin to frame the big ball of fruit. The 2014 seems to be filled with energy & holding on tight ready to develop & unwind.
Vineyard: 100% Premiere Vineyard Los Alamos
Alcohol: 13.2%
From the wind beaten hillside at White Hawk Vineyard, in silica rich ancient sand dune soils, comes our second vineyard designated release of 100% Sangiovese. The 2013 vintage Sangiovese WHK Vineyard is more open knit and dark fruit driven, earthy than the Oak Savanna. Aged in 700L French Oak barrels. Approachable now, and a glimpse of the bright future of Sangiovese in California. Only 100 cases produced. 13.8% alcohol.
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
2013 PINOT NOIR SBC CASE SPECIAL (12 bottles)
Regular Price: $285.60
Schaefer On Wine: "Lighter in color than most, it shows strawberry and cinnamon on the nose. Both red and black berry fruit on the palate, the wine is boisterous and generous with hints of characteristic earthiness. Well structured, it has the gravitas to age for many more years. It shows a certain finesse that follows through to the finish." Dennis Schaefer SB News Press 06/14/18
The 2013 vintage from Premier Vineyard in Los Alamos shows off both the elegant, feminine side of Pinot Noir, along with the ripe structure with good acidity from the steep hillside vineyard. Beautifully balanced, it was fermented 100% whole cluster. A blend of Swiss clone 2A and Dijon 115.
WINE ENTHUSIAST : 90 pts (September 2018)
231 cases produced. 14% alcohol.
The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon is a very special vintage from some of the oldest Cabernet vines in Santa Barbara County. Planted in 1972 by television producer Douglas Cramer, these old knarled vines create beautiful, deeply layered and elegant wines. Normally the Cabernet is blended as the centerpiece of the I Tre Figli proprietary blend, but in 2013 I knew it would best be bottled by itself as a single varietal. It's approachable now, but will benefit from cellar aging, having a great big middle with 13.2% alcohol. The layers will evolve & the patient will be rewarded for many years to come.
92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Sangiovese, 3% Cabernet Franc 116 Cases Produced.
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 (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
92pts Wine Enthusiast: "Beautiful aromas of roasted pork in a blackberry-licorice reduction sauce pick up a bit of grape candy before hitting the palate with black pepper, blueberries and solid tannins. It’s fun…" — M.K. (3/1/2015)
The 2010 vintage from my 3 acre block of 38 short rows at White Hawk Vineyard in Los Alamos. A blend of Clones 470 & 174. Perfectly balanced from a very long growing season at 13% alcohol.
Blended with 4% Mourvedre, 3% Grenache, 2% Viognier.
This is a wine built to last, one I hope to be able to drink for the next 15-20 years! (I recommend cellar ageing it for at least one to two years if possible to allow the bottle bouquet to develop more.
Vineyard Sources:
92% White Hawk Vineyard in Los Alamos
8% Vogelzang Vineyard in Happy Canyon
Bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Case Production: 530 cases
Special 12 bottle case sale on old world styled 10 year old Syrah!
Saviezza - (An old Italian word for “wisdom” or “knowledge”) "As I like to say, the more you drink, the smarter you think you are." - Benjamin
The 2010 is the 10th vintage from the old Tepusquet Vineyard at Cambria Estates in the Santa Maria Bench. It is the last Saviezza, and probably the most popular wine I sell. The old Cabernet roots were planted in 1971 by Louis Lucas. They were grafted in the early nineties to Sangiovese, and I started working with them in 2000. The old roots de-vigorated the Sangiovese & the 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.The 2010 wines are big and bold with dark fruits, smooth and lots of spice, great structure with some integrated tannins.
Ripe black plums, blackberry fruit, cola, anise, cinnamon spice with a hint of sweetness from oak. 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.
Enjoy now through 2026.
**Please serve at 58°-62°F (20 minutes in the refrigerator before drinking.)
Starting a harvest with a baby due at any second is something you'll never forget. After racking the Viognier to barrel for fermentation, I ran off to take my wife to the hospital not knowing what to expect! Joshua arrived in typical winemaker fashion at the beginning of harvest, on September 18, 2009!
Wanting to commemorate this historic event, I bottled a "barrel select" from his vintage. I carefully selected the best five barrels of Pinot Noir and wrote his name on the head of the barrel in chalk.
Three barrels of Julia's Vineyard Pommard clone, and two barrels of Sierra Madre Vineyard Clone 777 & 2A were blended together to form this special three clone Santa Maria Valley Cuvee.
I look forward to having Joshua re-write the wine notes for his birth year wine as we drink the wine together some day in the future.
Bottled unfined & unfiltered.
122 cases produced
Please serve at 58°F-64°F
SPECIAL on 3 bottles 2009 Pinot Noir Cuvee Joshua Thomas Santa Maria Valley (Barrel Select)