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Ojai 2007 Clos Pepe Vineyard Chardonnay (Sta. Rita Hills)
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- $38
Huge, rich, white Burgundy style Chardonnay. Has a pie-filling fruity richness of pineapples, lemondrop, pears, kiwi fruit and exotic kumquats, balanced with fine, minerally acidity, and wrapped into a buttercream texture. The oak is flamboyant, but perfectly in keeping with the wine’s volume. Dazzling and dramatic, from a vineyard that just keeps performing better…
— S.H.
(8/1/2010)
Ojai 2005 Fe Ciega Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)
- $56
This wine is as fine as anything from Santa Rita Hills. Although it’s young and tight now, its future is assured by the brilliant combination of audacious fruit and classic structure. The blackberry, currant, cherry, anise and clove flavors are wrapped into rich, silky tannins, and brightened with crisp acidity. Best now, with decanting, and for the next 6–8 years.
— S.H.
(3/1/2008)
Ojai 2005 Bien Nacido Vineyard Syrah (Santa Maria Valley)
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- $38
This was a great vintage for Ojai’s Bien Nacido Syrah. The wine is firm and strong and powerful, offering a blast of black pepper, then spreading out to include blackberries, red currants, dark chocolate, anise and cedar. It’s a dramatic young wine that should easily develop for at least six years.
— S.H.
(9/1/2009)
Ojai 2005 Presidio Vineyard Syrah (Santa Barbara County)
- $45
Held back for five years, this interesting Syrah is developing bottle complexities. It’s soft and gentle, with firm tannins, and the fruit is changing from fresh and primary to ethereal and mushroomy. Quite a beautiful, elegant wine now, and it should continue to evolve over the next five years.
— S.H.
(2/1/2011)
Ojai 2006 Melville Vineyards Syrah (Sta. Rita Hills)
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- $45
Rich, decadently elegant and classic California Syrah. Fully dry, this wine, from an impeccably farmed vineyard, explodes in blackberry, chocolate, licorice, violet, spice and cedar flavors, but is perfectly balanced with rich, refined tannins and fine cool-climate acidity.
— S.H.
(3/1/2009)
Ojai 2005 Clos Pepe Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)
- $56
A gorgeous Pinot, all silk and satin in the mouth, showing great structural refinement and finesse. Yet there’s nothing shy about the flavors. This is sheer California fruit, intense in cherries, red currants, licorice and cola. It’s so opulent it tastes sweet, but the finish is bone dry. Drink now through 2012.
— S.H.
(5/1/2008)
Ojai 2006 Presidio Vineyard Syrah (Santa Barbara County)
- $50
An interesting new bottling from Ojai. Inky black and utterly dry, it was grown in a very cool site west of the Santa Rita Hills boundary. The wine is high in both tannins and acids, giving it great structure, while sweet, smoky oak adds softening notes to the pure blackberry and black currant fruit flavors. Compelling. Drink now–2014.
— S.H.
(11/1/2009)
Ojai 2007 Bien Nacido Vineyard Chardonnay (Santa Maria Valley)
- $30
This is an extraordinarily rich Chardonnay, built along Burgundian lines. A deep gold color, it explodes in tangerine-infused butterscotch, honeysuckle, citron, spice and tangy mineral flavors, and finishes with a savory bite of coastal acidity.
— S.H.
(10/1/2009)
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Melville Vineyards
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Roll Ranch
Roll Ranch Six Barrels Made
Roll Ranch Vineyard
Solomon Hills
Solomon Hills Special Bottling Two Barrels Made
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Thompson Vineyard
White Hawk Vineyard
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