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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: http://www.ampeloscellars.com There’s no question that the Santa Barbara area of California has been producing stellar wines for a long time now. Unfortunatley, however, it seems that all too many people outside of that area often take the time to consider them, much less even taste or buy them. This is [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: www.masut.com The Fetzer family is no stranger at all when it comes to making wine – they’ve been at it for decades. So when sons, Jake and Ben wanted to start their own brand, showcasing what great Pinot can be like for a reasonable price, it was as natural for [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: http://www.hartfordwines.com Hartford wines is a producer of premium wines in the Sonoma area of California. It’s committed to Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Zinfandel. This pinot is from its Seascape vineyard -west of the town of Occidental. Technical Data:  Oak: 100% French oak; 60% new Time in oak: 15 months Alcohol: [...]

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For Michel-Schlumberger the process is simple – harness all of your collective passion to produce wines from the greater Dry Creek area, add a dose of lovin’ and there ya have it. Michel-Schlumberger’s winemaker, Mike Brunson is good at his job and his love for wine comes through in each bottle. 2008 Dry Creek Pinot Noir [...]

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Highflyer wines is an effort by Somerston wine company to showcase various vineyards in their region and bring out the best of each site. It’s headed up by winemaker, Craig Becker and David Zurowski who heads up the marketing – both are industry veterans in their own right. 2009 Grenache Blanc: W.E.P. Rating:  90% Technical [...]

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By Duane Pemberton   The Fetzer Family is a California icon – they have been producing quality wines in that State for nearly half a century. Bob Fetzer’s sons, Ben and Jake branched out and created their own winery called Masut – a brand dedicated to producing world-class Pinot Noir from the vineyard their father [...]

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Domaine Carneros has established itself as one of California’s top producers of sparkling wine, however it also makes (as we found out) really tasty Pinot Noir as well. Its chateau was completed in 1989 and is built to be a true-to-life one you’d see gracing the hills of France. It’s focus is bubbly, but clearly [...]

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Pedroncelli is a winery based in Geyersville California and has been producing quality wines there since 1934. It has built a reputation of producing wines of exceptional quality that reflect the local terroir of each vineyard site it uses. Pedroncelli makes a variety of red wines of Burgundy, Rhone and Bourdeaux varietals – as you [...]

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If you were to have the chance to meet the winemaker at Four Vines in Paso Robles, Christian Tietje, and ask him what his style was, he’d most likely say “to make wines that do a kick-ass job of representing their varietal composition”. His fresh, bold attitude is, fortunately, one that we’ve been seeing more [...]

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No doubt, the movie Sideways did a lot to bolster the sales of Pinot a few years ago and while I’m not at all a fan of the movie’s impact on wine sales (it shows we as a culture are too easily talked into what to drink), I do like a good pinot. To wine [...]

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