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White
750ml
Bottle: $29.88 $31.20
12 bottles: $29.64
The 2021 Grenache Blanc Thompson Vineyard is bright and beautifully focused. Orchard fruit, mint, white pepper and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $41.87
12 bottles: $41.03
The 2021 Grenache Santa Barbara Highlands Vineyard is one of the more ethereal and aromatic wines in this range....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $45.66
12 bottles: $44.75
Deceptive in its light-bodied structure, the 2021 Grenache Vie Caprice packs quite the punch. Darker tonalities of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.79
12 bottles: $34.09
Wild Strawberry, Raspberry, Blood Orange, Black Cherry, Rosemary, Violet, Baking Spices.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $48.89 $49.60
12 bottles: $47.91
Black cherry, mixed berry pie, cocoa, vanilla, white flowers, honey.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.50 $18.33
It is simultaneously Bold and Balanced, Rich and Smooth, Fruit Forward and Earthy. It is impossibly dark and...
White
750ml
Bottle: $26.89
12 bottles: $26.35
Abundant fruit with a slight tropical note backed by judicious oak. The fuller viscosity that is a signature of this...
White
750ml
Bottle: $35.90
12 bottles: $35.18
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.85 $20.00
A refreshing, dry, blended white with citrus lemon/lime notes, flinty minerality, and crisp finish.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.39 $24.88
6 bottles: $20.80
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.40 $26.00
This wine always overdelivers, and this vintage's blend of 50% Syrah, 38% Grenache, 7% Mourvèdre and 5% Counoise...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $38.93
12 bottles: $38.15
Pinot Noir from limestone and decomposed granite soils of Enz Vineyard in Lime Kiln Valley (San Benito County). The...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $9.84 $10.58
For $11, this California Cab packs bags of flavor. Find notes of black cherry, plum and currant, cinnamon, nutmeg,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $9.99
Layered with flavors of green apple, juicy pear and warm baking spices.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.93 $15.48
12 bottles: $11.58
This dark-purple-hued wine is opulent, with aromas of boysenberries, blue fruits, frankincense, violets and spiced...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $9.94
This full-bodied, hardy red maintains an element of freshness throughout. An underlying herbaceous and earthy tone...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.96 $18.85
12 bottles: $15.10
This fun, well-balanced Chardonnay layers fresher, zestier tones with riper, juicier ones, resulting in a casual...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $9.99
Dusty tannins paired with voluptuously ripe fruit notes of red plum, boysenberry and mixed-berry bramble make this a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.93 $15.48
12 bottles: $11.58
Flavors of cranberries and raspberries, leading to notes of red fruits, marionberry pie and baking spices.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $21.67 $24.08
12 bottles: $17.41
Broad aromas of white pear, poached apple and citrus peel draw the nose into this widely popular bottling. There's a...
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2011 2021 United States California San Benito County Santa Barbara Yolo County

Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.

California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.

Santa Barbara is home to many of California's most sought after wines, with a powerful reputation for superbly crafted, old world style big, flavorful and complex red wines. The white wine industry in the region is growing, too, with many wineries within Santa Barbara successfully experimenting with several classic white wine grape varietals. As in much of California, Santa Barbara benefits from the blazing west coast sunshine, coupled with cooling Pacific Ocean breezes and fogs, which help to temper the grapes and slow the ripening process, thus ensuring more flavor and aroma in the resulting wines. Although Santa Barbara is a relatively young wine region, it is home to many wineries who are extremely dedicated when it comes to demonstrating just how good their terroir is, and how characterful their region's wines can be.