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Tantara 2004 Evelyn Pinot Noir (Santa Maria Valley)
- Editors' Choice
- $80
Stunning. Just magnificent. This is from Tantara’s little Bien Nacido block. It achieves wonderfully ripe fruit flavors with clean, balancing tannins and acids to produce the utmost California cool-climate Pinot Noir. Cherries, raspberries, cola, rich new oak and Asian spice flavors all flood the palate, wrapped into a dramatic silky, velvety texture. This is great…
— S.H.
(12/31/2006)
Tantara 2004 Bien Nacido Vineyard Old Vine Pinot Noir (Santa Maria Valley)
- $45
This is a brilliant wine that defines Bien Nacido, the coast, and California Pinot Noir. There were worries about the heat, but somehow this has ended up balanced, dry and classically elegant, maybe because of vine age; they’re now 36-years- old. Impresses for the power of its cherry pie filling, mocha, rum and cola and spicebox flavors that finish dry and complex…
— S.H.
(12/31/2006)
Tantara 2007 Talley Rincon Chardonnay (Arroyo Grande Valley)
- Online Exclusive
- $38
Massively rich, with pronounced, sweet, smoky oak flavors and a rich vein of tart, creamy lees highlighting the underlying fruity ripeness. Shows flavors of grilled pineapples, tropical mangoes and pears, balanced with crisp acids. Tremendously delicious and compelling.
— S.H.
(8/1/2010)
Tantara 2004 Pisoni Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)
- Editors' Choice
- $60
Here’s a big, in-your-face Pinot Noir, offering up a blast of superripe fruit, almost Grenache-like in thick, soft red cherry flavors, complexed with sweet licorice, cola, mocha and spicy, vanilla oak. It’s a roller coaster palate experience, a thrill every second, yet somehow maintains a silky, Pinotesque delicacy. Great wine.
— S.H.
(12/31/2006)
Tantara 2008 Bien Nacido Vineyard Chardonnay (Santa Maria Valley)
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- $38
Superrich, ripe and flamboyant, if not particularly subtle. Dazzles for its tsunami of grilled pineapple custard, pear tart, golden mango and Key lime pie richness, accented with sweetly, caramelized oak, and brightened with brisk acidity. A racy, decadent crowd pleaser.
— S.H.
(8/1/2010)
Tantara 2006 Evelyn Pinot Noir (Santa Maria Valley)
- $90
Young and full-bodied, with a pie-filling wealth of cherries, raspberries, sassafras, orange peel, cinnamon, pepper and sandalwood. Dazzles with richness, a food group of its own. Yet balanced and elegant. Calls for a great steak, and should age well through 2012.
— S.H.
(10/1/2009)
Tantara 2006 Bien Nacido Old Vine Pinot Noir (Santa Maria Valley)
- $48
Very rich and complicated. Shows pie-filling flavors of cherries, raspberries and red currants, seasoned with anise, vanilla, cocoa, black pepper and cinnamon. Easy to enjoy this elegant, delicious wine.
— S.H.
(10/1/2009)
Tantara 2004 Silacci Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)
- $52
The vineyard is in the central-north, cooler part of the Highlands, but in this warm vintage, the wine sure did get ripe. It just detonates on the palate with explosive cherry, raspberry, mocha, cola and vanilla flavors. Saved from being a mere fruit bomb by a gorgeous acid-tannin balance.
— S.H.
(12/31/2006)
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Ashley's Vineyard
Bien Nacido
Bien Nacido Estate Grown
Bien Nacido Old Vine
Bien Nacido Vineyard
Bien Nacido Vineyard Adobe
Bien Nacido Vineyard Old Vine
Brosseau Vineyard
Dierberg Vineyard
Evelyn
Garys' Vineyard
La Colline Vineyard
Pisoni Vineyard
Rio Vista Vineyard
Sanford & Benedict Vineyard
Silacci Vineyard
Solomon Hills Vineyard
Talley Rincon
Talley Vineyard
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