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Fiddlehead 2004 Fiddlestix Vineyard Lollapalloza Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)

Price $50

This is one of the top vineyards in the appellation, sought by anyone who can get the grapes. Co-owner Kathy Joseph has crafted a voluptuous, sensual Pinot that’s soft, beguiling and superrich in cherry pie, smoky char and cinnamon-spicy vanilla flavors. It’s the kind of Pinot everyone wants to make but usually can’t. — S.H. (11/15/2006)

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Fiddlehead 2005 Lollapalooza Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)

Editors' Choice

Price $50

This is beautiful, dark and powerful, but refined and elegant. Packed with red and dark cherry stone fruit flavors, it has an excitingly smooth, silky texture, and finishes with an explosion of spice. Editors’ Choice. — S.H. (4/1/2007)

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Fiddlehead 2001 Fiddlestix Seven Twenty Eight Pinot Noir (Santa Ynez Valley)

Price $38

I got excited smelling this wine. Dramatically toasted oak, mint, cherry compote, mocha, spice aromas, complex and powerful. It’s still young now, altogether, a gawky puppy, but in 5 years the lush fruit, oak, brilliant acidity and tannins will meld. Shows great structure. — S.H. (5/1/2005)

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Fiddlehead 2009 Goosebury Sauvignon Blanc (Santa Ynez Valley)

Price $34

A perfect evocation of how beautifully Sauvignon Blanc expresses itself in the Happy Canyon area of the Santa Ynez Valley. With no oak, and without the malolactic fermentation, what you get is pure fruit. Crisp, mouthwatering acidity frames beautiful flavors of Meyer lemons, limes, peaches, minerals and, yes, gooseberries. What a wonderful food wine. — S.H. (2/1/2011)

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Fiddlehead 2000 Pinot Noir (Santa Barbara)

Editors' Choice

Price $50

A amazing wine from this new Santa Barbara appellation. Shows fully ripened blackberry and cherry compote combined with grilled meat, crushed herbs and a hint of tomato. The tannins are as soft as a feather’s touch. With delicacy of body matched with full-impact fruit, this wine is a winner. Editors’ Choice. —S.H. — S.H. (12/31/2002)

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Fiddlehead 2001 Lollapalooza Fiddlestix Pinot Noir (Santa Ynez Valley)

Price $50

Pinot that dramatically illlustrates the potential of the Santa Rita Hills. Succulent, intense flavors of black cherries and blueberries, sweet and ripe, are complexed with mocha and dusted with pepper and other spices. All this is encased in a dry silky mouthfeel. — S.H. (3/1/2004)

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Fiddlehead 2005 Pink Fiddle Rosé Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)

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Price $15

Doesn't say so on the label, but the wine comes from Kathy Joseph's Fiddlestix Vineyard, and the wine shows the property's clarity of acidity and wealth of berry and spice flavors. It's very dry, a fun wine yet a serious one too, and certainly among the best California rosés of the vintage. — S.H. (11/15/2006)

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Fiddlehead 1999 Oldsville Reserve Pinot Noir

Price $40

This Burgundian-style baby is a big, dense, chewy wine. It’s like a mouthful of grilled meat, ripe beefsteak tomatoes, blackberries and pepper, with a dash of soy. In other words, complex. It’s also very dry and fairly tannic, an obvious cellar candidate. —S.H. — S.H. (12/31/2002)

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Fiddlestix Seven Twenty Eight Fiddlestix Vineyard Lollapalloza Goosebury Happy Canyon Hunnysuckle Lollapalooza Lollapalooza Fiddlestix Oldsville Reserve Pink Fiddle Rosé Seven Twenty Eight

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