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From the organically-farmed grapes at our El Jabalí vineyard comes this vibrant chardonnay. Like Helen of Troy in a bottle, launching a thousand over-the-top descriptors, it is a thing of ravishing beauty, brilliant, elegant, graceful, smelling of flowers, pineapple and lime zest. A chardonnay that's not a dairy product (what an idea!), sleek with crisp acidity.

Here is a new-generation style chardonnay; not oaky, not buttery...instead, you get a crisp wine with a racy mineral streak running through tropical fruit flavors and aromas of pineapple guava and citrus-honey, brushed with herbs.

From the beauty of its firm minerality to the concentrated textural creaminess, here is more enchantment from La Encantada Vineyard. Pear, lime, kiwifruit all come to mind, bolstered by pleasant acidity. Brief aging in new oak barrels contributes to texture without woody or smoky flavor.

A firm, almost stony wine offset by a simultaneous creamy quality; aromas and flavors of exotic melon, citrus, and Asian pear...Grapes from Gaia Vineyard (formerly “Ashley’s”) off Hwy. 246 in the western Sta. Rita Hills, fermented in stainless steel, then aged in neutral oak for seven months.

On Santa Rosa Road, eleven miles west of Highway 101 is La Encantada Vineyard, the “enchanted” place. There’s definitive enchantment to this wine, with its exotic floral attributes (the beauty of orchids) and rich tropical fruit character layered over a snappy texture. This is a connoisseur’s Pinot Gris!

Like a fresh breeze coming off the sea, carrying scents of apricot and tangerine blossoms, a hint of pear, a whiff of honeysuckle; delicately beautiful, with acidity as taut as a bow string. Perfect with a wide variety of Mediterranean dishes, or spicy Asian cuisine, or just to enjoy the memory of summer on some winter afternoon.

The “Encantada” shows quintessential Pinot Noir characteristics of cherry-berry fruit, brown spice, a little forest-floor earthiness, and a thought provoking deep, dark complexity… still a happy wine, but showing a more serious side as well…

Bright and bursting with fruitiness, almost candy-like (but without the sugar-sweetness)… here are strawberry-rhubarb-raspberry tones under laid with classic Pinot Noir spiciness, a soft and easy acid-tannin texture and a pleasing minerality on the palate… This is a wine that’s singing a happy tune and doing a little dance to go with it.

Nothing sweet or frivolous about it, this is one “serious” rosé...100% pinot noir fruit from El Jabalí Vineyard on Santa Rosa Road - Sta. Rita Hills. Fermented off the skins to total dryness...strawberry, plum and spice notes and a pale copper color (it’s not pink!)...