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Foxen 2010 Block UU Bien Nacido Vineyard Chardonnay (Santa Maria Valley)

Editors' Choice

Price $32

Enthusiast 100 2011

You want decadence, opulence and fabulosity in your Chardonnay? This one’s for you. It’s tremendous in ripe pineapple, pear, peach, mango, lime, tangerine and papaya flavors. So much fruit, while the oak application is never heavy handed, applying just the right touch of buttered toast. Where does all that vanilla honey come from? A magnificent example of a… — S.H. (12/15/2011)

Foxen 2008 Julia's Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Maria Valley)

Price $54

A beautiful Pinot, showing the depth of fruit and structural balance this fine vineyard is famous for. It’s a low-yield wine, aged in 50% new French oak that adds a rich, smoky vanilla coat to the raspberry and cherry jam, spice and mineral flavors. No stems were included in the fermentation, which accounts for the silky transparency. This compelling Pinot changes… — S.H. (11/1/2010)

Foxen 2008 Estate Grown Dry Farmed Tinaquaic Vineyard Chardonnay (Santa Maria Valley)

Price $32

This is easily the greatest of Foxen’s new Chardonnays. It show the dryness and crisp acidity of the other bottlings, but is enormously rich and complex in oak-inspired pineapple, peach, crème brûlée, buttered toast, honey and mineral flavors. Decant for a while to let it mellow, and it should develop bottle complexity through 2014. — S.H. (12/31/2009)

Foxen 2007 Tinaquaic Vineyard Chardonnay (Santa Maria Valley)

Editors' Choice

Price $32

This bottling by veteran Foxen offers one of the starkest, most appealing choices available in California Chardonnay. Far from a superripe buttery monster, it’s a lean, elegant machine. With vibrant acidity and a mineral undergirding, it offers rich flavors of citrus fruits and rind and yeasty, Champagne-like lees. — S.H. (12/31/2008)

Foxen 1994 Sanford & Benedict Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Ynez Valley)

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Alcohol 13.6%. Brilliantly clear. Darker that the ‘93. Blast of dusty spices, sweet char, vanilla, oodles of red cherries. Terrifically sweet cherry and raspberry fruit, enormous middle palate. Flamboyant, hedonistic. Medium-bodied, with good acidity and firm tannins. Beautiful now-2012. — S.H. (6/1/2005)

Foxen 2007 Sanford & Benedict Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)

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Price $50

This is a big, gutsy, tannic and dry Pinot Noir, almost old-fashioned in its closed quality. It’s built for aging. Locked down and tight now, but with a tremendous core of cherries, strawberries, blueberries and spice. Authoritative and distinctive. Hold until 2012 and beyond. — S.H. (11/1/2009)

Foxen 2004 Ernesto Wickenden Vineyard Chenin Blanc (Santa Maria Valley)

Editors' Choice

Price $18

Winemaker Bill Wathan loves making this wine, which is the best Chenin Blanc in California. Made from 40-year old vines, barrel fermented, bone dry and aged in older French oak, it will change your mind about this variety. Long in lemongrass, kiwi and licorice flavors, with bracing acidity, it has a rich, creamy mouthfeel, great complexity, and a long, interesting… — S.H. (12/31/2006)

Foxen 2009 Williamson Doré Vineyard Syrah (Santa Ynez Valley)

Price $44

Ripe and decadent as usual, maybe even more so in blackberry tart, melted dark chocolate and spicy plum flavors with a touch of funky bacon. You can’t help but be impressed by the richness. Saved from being a mere fruit bomb by acidity and lush, smooth tannins. Drink now. — S.H. (12/1/2011)

Prominent Designations [All]

7200 Vogelzang Vineyard Bien Nacido Vineyard Bien Nacido Vineyard Block 8 Bien Nacido Vineyard Block Eight Bien Nacido Vineyard Block UU Bien Nacido Vineyard Steel Cut Block 8 Bien Nacido Vineyard Block N Bien Nacido Vineyard Block UU Bien Nacido Vineyard Carhartt Vineyard Cuvée Jean Marie Red Table Wine Cuvee Jeanne Marie Ernesto Wickenden Vineyard Ernesto Wickenden Vineyard Old Vines Estate Grown Dry Farmed Tinaquaic Vineyard Foothills Reserve Julia's Vineyard La Encantada Vineyard Morehouse Vineyard Range 30 West Roasted Slope Rothberg Vineyard Sanford & Benedict Vineyard Sea Smoke Sea Smoke Vineyard Tianquaic Vineyard Tianquiac Vineyard Tinaquaic Vineyard Tinaquiac Vineyard Toasted Rope Vogelzang Vineyard Williamson-Doré Vineyard Williamson-Dore Vineyard Cuvée Jeanne Marie

Most Reviewed Varietals [All]

Bordeaux-style Red Blend Cabernet Sauvignon Chardonnay Chenin Blanc Merlot Mourvèdre Pinot Noir Red Blend Rhône-style Red Blend Sauvignon Blanc Shiraz/Syrah Viognier

Most Reviewed Regions [All]

Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara Santa Barbara County Santa Maria Valley Santa Ynez Valley Sta. Rita Hills

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