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Sanford 2009 La Riconada Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)
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- $60
There’s a grace and purity to this Pinot Noir that make it particularly recommendable. It’s so light and silky, it just glides like a butterfly across the palate. But it’s extraordinarily rich in wild raspberry and cherry fruit, and the white pepper and baking spices make it savory. Delicious now, but it should prosper over the next eight years, at least.
— S.H.
(10/1/2012)
Sanford 1998 Sanford & Benedict Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Barbara County)
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Alcohol: 14.0%. Very forward and fresh, with a young aroma. Tons of red cherries, charry oak, with a fresh, clean, forest-floor scene. Pine needles, spice. Intense sour cherry candy, rhubarb and spice flavors. Very sweet, intense. Clean, long finish, with great racy acids. Beet root. Delicious now-2012.
— S.H.
(6/1/2005)
Sanford 2002 La Rinconada Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)
- Editors' Choice
- $46
This superior Pinot Noir gives everything the appellation is famous for. Lively acidity makes the wine bright and clean. The flavors are deep and complex, suggesting black cherries, cola, rhubarb, dried leaves, crushed spices and smoky oak. There’s a dusting of fine tannins, the texture is pure silk and velvet, and the finish is dry.
— S.H.
(12/31/2005)
Sanford 2010 Sanford & Benedict Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)
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- $60
This is a fancy restaurant-style Pinot Noir. That means it’s dry, silky and rich, and has that elusive, undefinable quality of elegance that can accompany the finest Pinot-friendly foods, such as steak, lamb, grilled tuna or a wild mushroom risotto. It’s tantalizingly crisp, with complex cherry, cola and spice flavors. Drink now and through 2016.
— S.H.
(10/1/2012)
Sanford 2007 La Rinconada Vineyard Chardonnay (Sta. Rita Hills)
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- $38
Rich in acids and steely minerals, which gives the wine a tart scour, grounding the pineapples, pears and honeyed oak. Very nice and classic, and should gradually develop bottle complexities through 2013.
— S.H.
(12/1/2009)
Sanford 2007 La Entrada Chardonnay (Sta. Rita Hills)
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- $45
Acidity and minerality mark this vibrant, complex young Chardonnay. It has a tart, sour pineapple candy flavor, softened and enriched with sweet smoky oak and butterscotch, and undergirded with a chalky tang. Very fine, and will develop for 4–6 years.
— S.H.
(12/1/2009)
Sanford 2002 Sanford & Benedict Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Barbara County)
- Cellar Selection
- $43
This is a big, ripe, juicy Pinot, with powerful cherry and blueberry flavors accented with nuances of cola, coffee, cocoa and oak. It’s rich and intricately detailed, and very young, even impertinent. Give it a few years to soften and sweeten. Should improve for five years or more.
— S.H.
(6/1/2005)
Sanford 2006 Sanford & Benedict Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills)
- $48
A beautiful Pinot Noir, showing off the variety’s rich velvety, texture and the way it seduces the palate. Balancing in the tension between acids, tannins and oak, it shows deliciously ripe flavors of red and black currants, cherries and dusty spices.
— S.H.
(12/31/2008)
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