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Fess Parker 2008 Bien Nacido Vineyard Chardonnay (Santa Barbara County)
- Editors' Choice
- $28
What a roll Fess Parker Winery is on with their ’08 Chardonnays. Not only great wine, but priced so well. This wine, sourced from Parker’s U Block in this famous Santa Maria Valley vineyard, is as rich as any Chardonnay of the vintage—just massive in pineapple, pear and buttered toast flavors. Yet it’s crisp and tart, clean and bracing in its minerality. Only 115…
— S.H.
(7/1/2010)
Fess Parker 2005 Ashley's Vineyard Clone 115 Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)
- $50
This single-clone barrel selection takes the essence of the gorgeous, regular ’05 Ashley’s and concentrates it. Brims with sautéed Portobello mushroom, tamari, tangerine zest and black cherry preserves, leading to an immaculately rich, delicately silky, nuanced and enormously complicated Pinot. Hard to exaggerate the purity and finesse. Drink now–2012, before the…
— S.H.
(4/1/2007)
Fess Parker 2008 Ashley's Vineyard Chardonnay (Sta. Rita Hills)
- Editors' Choice
- $28
Don’t drink this beauty too cold with your lobster, crab or scallops. It has the weight of a noble wine, with minerality and creaminess giving shape and texture to the leesy, yeasty flavors of pineapples, Key lime pie and ripe pear purée. Aged in 40% new French oak, California Chardonnay hardly gets any better than this.
— S.H.
(7/1/2010)
Fess Parker 2005 Ashley's Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)
- $52
Ashley’s, sold recently by the Parkers and now renamed Gaia, is a fabulous vineyard on the coolest western edge of the appellation. In this long hangtime vintage, the grapes achieved spectacularly ripe, fruity flavors, of cherries, raspberry purée and sweet, oak-infused cola. But this is no mere fruit bomb. The acid-tannin balance is amazing, and the wine has a…
— S.H.
(4/1/2007)
Fess Parker 2007 Ashley's Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)
- Cellar Selection
- $50
Tasted in March, 2009, this Pinot was dark, rich and tannic. Clearly too young to really show its best now. But it’s an ager. Give it three or four years to let all the parts come together, when the cherries, blackberries, spices and oak should begin to become silky and sweet. Will improve through 2015.
— S.H.
(8/1/2009)
Fess Parker 2003 Ashley's Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)
- Editors' Choice
- $45
If you had to take one red wine to that proverbial desert island, this might be it. It’s simply delicious. The cherry, black raspberry, cocoa, coffee, cola and spice flavors are enormously deep and long, yet such is the acidity that the wine is filled with life and zest. Just marvelous, and probably best now and over the next year or two.
— S.H.
(11/1/2005)
Fess Parker 1999 Marcella's Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Barbara County)
- Editors' Choice
- $45
Captures the essence of South Coast Pinot in its fantastic concentration and depth. Berry, smoke, tomato, chocolate and spice mingle together in a silky package that defines harmony, elegance, power and finesse. Only 300 cases made.
— S.H.
(12/15/2001)
Fess Parker 2010 Viognier (Santa Barbara County)
- Editors' Choice
- $25
Tremendous honeyed richness in this Viognier, yet as sweet as it tastes, it finishes dry, a magical trick only a great wine can accomplish. Shows all the exotic tropical fruit, wildflower and spice flavors you could ask for in a California Viognier, and never loses its vitality.
— S.H.
(4/1/2012)
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Bien Nacido
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Lot 22 Frontier Red
Lot 71 Frontier Red
Mackie's Blend
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Melange du Rhône
Pommard Clone
Rio Vista
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