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2006
Vintage
2005
Vintage
2004
Vintage
2003
Vintage
2002
Vintage
2006
Vintage
2006 Pinot Noir, Gatekeepers,
Sta. Rita Hills
This is the 5th vintage for this cuvee. This ’06
vintage is soft and round with plenty of elegance and
charm. The dusty blue notes resonate along with spicy
cherries, earth and feminine qualities that are exotic
and sultry. The tannins are soft and welcoming. And
the finish is a quality pleasure ride. Enjoy!
For a printable version of the full winemaking and
tasting notes, please click here.
2005
Vintage
Pinot Noir, Ashley's Santa
Rita Hills
Magenta color. Medium-full
body. Scents of spicy bing cherries and blackberries,
wild candied red fruits, floral notes with a hint of
minerality and a nice touch of oak toast. The palate
is complex and elegant with a wonderful combination
of plush tannins and firm acidity on the finish with
varietal undertones of rose petals and hint of minerality
and sweet earth.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Pinot Noir, Cargasacchi
Jalama,
Santa Barbara County
Deep red cherry color.
The nose is exotic and complex with spicy plum blossoms,
pomegranates and bing cherries. The palate is soft and
easy flowing which cascades with mouth watering red
fruits and consistent mineral tones on the finish. A
wonderful and elegant balance between fruit weight,
tannin and acidity.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Pinot
Noir, Fog-Eater,
Anderson Valley
Magenta color. Medium-full
body. Very Anderson Valley. Rich and spicy black fruit,
fresh scents of spicy plum, cranberries, forest floor
with hints of nutmeg and cinnamon. On the palate there
is great complexity with wonderful notes of blackberries,
spicy red fruits, floral notes and a nice touch of cedar.
The tannins are ripe and sumptuous with fresh acidity
that leaves with a long finish of sweet blackberry and
cherry tart.
The 2005 Pinot
Noir Fog-Eater exhibits a slightly deeper ruby
color and a beautiful nose of blueberry, raspberry,
and cherry that soars from the glass. Elegant, fresh,
and vibrant, with the fruit clearly running the show
here, this wine can be drunk now or cellared for 3-4
years. (90 points)
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Pinot Noir, Gatekeepers,
Santa Rita Hills
2005 was a beautiful
vintage with mild temperatures and balanced yields.
This provided a little extra intensity than is usually
seen from other SRH’s vintages. This vintage expresses
the delicate qualities of Pinot Noir very well with
structure and finesse built in for a savory complement
to fine cuisine. So, reaching for the opposite corner
ends of SRH both North West (Ashley’s Vineyard)
and South East (Rio-Vista) with three clones and a synergistic
ratio, ultimately, lends itself to an individual sense
of place for both the above vineyards and the existing
AVA, while having a style of complexity, varietal quality
and rich finesse.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Pinot Noir, McDougall, Sonoma
Coast
Magenta color. Full bodied
Pinot Noir. Very exciting nose, full of exotic and wild
dark fruits, blood red plum and sweet earth. The attack
on the palate is just as exciting with lifted notes
of ripe bing cherrie, perfume and floral undercurrents
that cascade all across the palate at once.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Pinot Noir, Threesome, Sta.
Rita Hills
This wine is a unique
blend of 100% Pinot Noir from some of the best and most
reputable Pinot Noir vineyard sites that Santa Barbara
has to offer. Fiddlestix again led the bunch this year
with classic maturity and finesse with high tones of
quince, rose petals and cherries. The heavily supporting
role of Rio Vista was in sync with its elegant framework
of red fruits and floral tones and lastly a final touch
of Cargasacchi Jalama contributing undeniably distinctive
qualities of earth and spice.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Pinot Noir, Weir Vineyard,
Yorkville Highlands
Cherry red color. Medium
body. Scents of spicy bing cherries and blackberries,
with earthy and mature red fruits, floral notes with
a hint of leather and nice integration of oak. The palate
is complex and round with delicious mouth watering cherry
fruits and a wonderful combination of plush tannins
and acidity on the finish with varietal undertones of
rose petals and hint of minerality and sweet earth.
Lots of finesse and maturity.
Sweet currants, cherries,
and a bit of sassafras and spice comprise the medium
ruby-colored 2005 Pinot Noir Weir Vineyard from the
Yorkville Highlands (a site made famous by the well-known
winery Williams-Selyem in the Russian River). The wine
is medium to full-bodied, tightly knot, but beautifully
pure and nicely concentrated. It still needs another
year or so to be fully expressive, but this is a well-made
Pinot Noir.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
2004
Vintage
Grenache, Ying & Yang
Ying & Yang is a
unique blend between west side Paso Robles appellation
(Hearthstone Vineyard) and Santa Ynez Valley (Larner
Vineyard). Yin Yang is a Buddhist philosophy which embodies
the concept that very different parts will unite to
form a harmonious and complete union. These two lots
of wines were very different in every respect besides
the variety. Appellation, soils, orientation, farming
practices… but once they came together, oh the
medley of complex but pure flavors!
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Pinot Noir, Arita Hills,
Santa Rita Hills
When I crushed the 2004
Arita Hills grapes I knew that the 2003 was more than
just luck, I knew from then on, that this vineyard has
a magical purity so distinctive that it isn’t
recognized in any other vineyard and yet it could be
no other variety besides Pinot Noir. The French would
call this phenomenon ‘great growth’ or perhaps,
true ‘terrior’. This site has a mysterious,
exotic, distinctive and ethereal qualities about it
that only a vineyard of this caliber can create and
perhaps, only with Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir, Gatekeepers,
Santa Rita Hills
The 2004 vintage of Gatekeepers
is a blend from two vineyards - Ashley's (the westernmost
vineyard in the appellation) and Rio Vista (the easternmost)
- hence Gatekeepers.
An
awesome young wine. Rich, smooth and polished, with
a plush core of wild berry, black cherry and blackberry
fruit that gushes with flavor and keeps a tight focus
on the long, luxurious finish.
James Laube, Wine Spectator online
Pinot Noir, Threesome, Santa
Rita Hills
This wine is a unique
blend of 100% Pinot Noir from some of the best and most
reputable Pinot Noir vineyard sites in the Santa Rita
Hills Appellation of Santa Barbara County. The philosophy
behind the blending resulted while imagining what these
great single vineyard wines could do if they were layered
on top of one another.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Syrah, Larner, Santa Ynez
Valley
This wine is very dark
in color with dark purple hues around the edges. The
nose is intense with multi-layered aromas of blackberry,
milk chocolate, boysenberry, dark cherry and sandalwood,
with hints of lavender. On the palate, it doesn’t
disappoint and has consistent fruit weight that cascades
with expansive silky powdery tannins with a long lingering
finish. This wine would bode well with any serious grilled
or barbecued game meat.
2003
Vintage
Cabernet Franc, Hearthstone
This is a very focused
wine which expresses its terroir wonderfully. The color
is a deep purple hue. The nose is very generous with
aromas of black cherry, blackberries, cocoa with notes
of lavender and violets. The flavors are very consistent
with the aromas with black cherries, black raspberries
with hints of truffles and chocolate. The structure
has terrific balance with firm tannins making for a
long finish.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Grenache, Hearthstone
Red cherry color with
magenta around the edges. On the nose, this wine is
very generous and full of complexity giving up dried
fruits, spice and sweet cherries with wonderful floral
notes and hard cherry candy. The structure is silky
soft on the palate with a lingering finish of briary
berry fruits and soft earthy spice. A joy to taste and
very versatile with a wide range of culinary treats.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Pinot Noir, Arita Hills,
Santa Rita Hills
This was our first vintage
from this vineyard and was one of our most exciting
wines. The block chosen, which was entirely planted
to clone 667, combined with the vintage provided very
low yields producing great intensity and focus of fruit.
Pinot Noir, Gatekeepers,
Santa Rita Hills
We believe that we have achieved our goal with the
2003 Gatekeepers – capturing the feeling
of Santa Rita Hills from the far corners of the appellation,
keeping an individual sense of place for both the Rio
Vista and Ashley’s vineyards, enhancing complexity
in the wine from three different clones, all the while
creating a wine with restraint, varietal quality and
finesse.
For a printable version of the full winemaking and
tasting notes, please click here.
Pinot Noir, Rio Vista, Santa Rita Hills
Rio Vista Vineyard is the easternmost vineyard in Santa
Rita Hills and is located on a gentle slope with a north-east
face on Santa Rosa Road. Fruit from impeccably farmed
Rio Vista Vineyard has gone into the Drew Gatekeepers
Pinot Noir since 2002, but this is the first year that
we have produced a single-vineyard bottling from Santa
Rita Hills.
For a printable version of the full winemaking and
tasting notes, please click here.
Syrah, Alisos Vineyard, Santa Barbara
County
This wine is a great expression of the Alisos Vineyard.
In order to complement the terroir of the vineyard,
the wine was aged in 100%, heavy toasted French barrels.
The finished wine is very dark, with deep purple hues.
The expression, both aroma and flavor, is complex with
a strong varietal character of boysenberry, black cherry,
blueberry and anise. This well-balanced wine has a wonderful
combination of power and finesse and while it is delicious
now, it will age gracefully for 8 or more years.
For a printable version of the full winemaking and
tasting notes, please click here.
Syrah, Hearthstone Vineyard,
Paso Robles
This is a very focused
wine which expresses its terroir wonderfully. The color
is a deeply colored wine with a dark purple hue. The
nose is very generous with aromas of hard cherry candy,
rose petals and red blood plum. The flavors are very
consistent with the aromas with black cherries and taffy
notes. The structure has terrific balance with firm
tannins making for a long finish.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Syrah, Morehouse Vineyard,
Santa Ynez Valley
I feel that the 2003
Morehouse Syrah is one of the best and most unique,
‘Terroir’ driven wines I’ve ever made.
Its deep red and purple tones have garnet hues around
the edges. The nose is intense with great complexity.
Aromas include lots of floral notes with sweet red cherries,
blackberries, licorice notes and red pepper corns with
a hint of smoke. The palate consists of rich flavors
with suggestions of cherry cobbler and marmalade with
luscious tannins that make for a long finish.
For a printable version of the full winemaking and
tasting notes, please click here.
Syrah, Rodney's & Larner, Santa Ynez
Valley
This wine is very dark in color with
magenta hues around the edges. The nose is intense and
seductive with multi-layered aromas of toffee, wild
berry, blueberry, blood red plum, dark cherries, chocolate
and cracked pepper with hints of meat. On the palate,
it has consistent fruit weight that cascades with expansive
tannins and a long lingering finish. Drink over the
next 7 years.
For a printable version of the full
winemaking and tasting notes, please click here.
Syrah, Six Sense, Santa Barbara County
This wine is a unique blend of 100% Syrah from six
different vineyards located within Santa Barbara County.
Probably the most complex of all Drew wines, the blend
is not only from six superb Rhône focused vineyards,
but also six different Syrah grape clones. It was an
ambitious project, but with the 2003 Six-Sense,
we feel that we have enhanced the complexity of Syrah
while totally expressing the many different nuances
of Santa Barbara County’s terroir.
For a printable version of the full winemaking and
tasting notes, please click here.
Cabernet Franc, Hearthstone, Paso Robles
This is a very focused wine which
expresses its terroir wonderfully. The color is a deep
purple hue. The nose is very generous with aromas of
black cherry, blackberries, cocoa with notes of lavender
and violets. The flavors are very consistent with the
aromas with black cherries, black raspberries with hints
of truffles and chocolate. The structure has terrific
balance with firm tannins making for a long finish.
For a printable version of the full
winemakeing and tasting notes, please click here.
2002
Vintage
Cabernet Franc, Vogelzang
Vineyard, Santa Ynez
This is a very generous
wine on the nose giving off aromas of blackberries,
black cherries, and violets with a hint of vanilla bean.
On the palate, the flavors are consistent with the aromatics.
The core fruit weight is very well integrated with plush
tannins and the natural acidity of the wine providing
for an enjoyable and lengthy finish. Aging potential
of this wine is 10 plus years.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Pinot Noir, Gatekeepers,
Santa Rita Hills
The inaugral release of this blend of this wine - a
blend of grapes from two vineyards in the Santa Rita
Hills appellation - one furthest east (Rio Vista) and
one furthest west (Ashley's) - the "gatekeepers"
of the appellation.
For a printable version of the full winemaking and
tasting notes, please click here.
Pinot Noir, Julia's Vineyard, Santa Maria
Valley
Made from a Pommard clone of Pinot Noir that was planted
in 1991, this wine has wonderful balance between fruit
weight, tannin and acid and should age gracefully.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Syrah, Five Clone, Central
Coast
This wine is perhaps
the ultimate expression of complexity in a Drew wine.
A unique blend of 100% Syrah from six different vineyards
and five clones produces layers of aromas and flavors.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Syrah, Alisos - Thompson,
Santa Barbara County
This Syrah is a quintessential
Drew offering - the balance of fruit weight with structure
is one of our ultimate objectives. The Alisos and Thompson
Syrah is one of our dual-vineyard designate wines. This
allows the wine to demonstrate the focused characteristics,
the terroir, of each vineyard, while producing a deeper,
more complex wine.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Syrah, Rodney's - Larner,
Santa Ynez Valley
This Syrah is the ripest
of our 2002 offerings, the grapes having been sourced
from two prized vineyards within the Santa Ynez Valley
appellation. This is a true dual vineyard designate
wine with 50% of each vineyard contributing - both vineyards
are big in structure and complexity.
For a printable version
of the full winemaking and tasting notes, please click
here.
Syrah, Thompson Vineyard,
Santa Barbara County
This wine is loaded with
dark fruits and complexity with smooth texture and wonderful
natural acidity that makes for a long enjoyable finish.
This wine is drinking great now and should drink well
through 2012. Enjoy with an herbed leg of lamb.
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