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California’s 2014 wine sales increase both in volume, value across United States

20 Wednesday May 2015

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California’s wine shipments in the United States were 225 million cases in 2014, up 4.4 percent from the previous year, according to the Wine Institute in San Francisco.

This translates to an estimated retail value of $24.6 billion, up 6.7 percent. California wine sales to all markets, both domestic and international, increased 3.7 percent by volume to 269 million cases in 2014.

“California has had three excellent harvests in both quantity and quality in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and these vintages are receiving global recognition,” said Robert P. (Bobby) Koch, president and CEO of the Wine Institute.

“The premium wine segment — $10 and above — is strong and with excellent prospects for continued growth over the next few years,” said wine industry consultant Jon Fredrikson of Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates in Woodside. “The value-priced wine segment has been shrinking because consumers are buying more expensive wine and because of competition from the increasing number of alcohol beverage offerings.”

The United States has been the world’s largest wine market since 2010.

Fredrikson explained that value-priced wines made up 75 percent of California table wine volume in 2014, while premium wines accounted for 25 percent of wine volume but almost half (47 percent) of winery revenues.

Because of the consumer transition to higher value wines, dollar sales grew faster than purchase volumes in 2014, according to Nielsen, a global provider of information and insights into consumer preferences and purchases.

According to Nielsen, in measured U.S. off-premise channels, the most popular wine types by volume were Chardonnay (19 percent share), Cabernet Sauvignon (13 percent), Red Blends/Sweet Reds (10 percent), Pinot Grigio (9 percent) and Merlot (8 percent), followed by Moscato (6 percent), Pinot Noir (5 percent), White Zinfandel (5 percent), and Sauvignon Blanc (4 percent). Red blends accounted for the strongest volume gains, along with Moscato, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon.

The Top 22 Wines I tasted during 2014

08 Thursday Jan 2015

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Aaron Watty, Ballard Canyon Road American Viticultural Area, Big Tar, Blake Sillix, Ethan Wines, Garagiste Festival: Southern Exposure, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara AVA, Mark Cargasacchi, Sta. Rita Hills AVA

Let me be the first to acknowledge that yes, I need to venture further afield, because all of these wines hail from Santa Barbara County grapes — not that there’s anything wrong with that fact — and yes, I’m posting this list late, as it’s already 2015.

Oh well.

My disclaimer: I have personally tasted all of these wines, either by the taste, glass or bottle. Naturally, I sampled other wines throughout the year, but only the following made my cut for this list.

Taking good notes does pay, for I can share where and (sometimes) even when I came to taste these particular beauties. Comments appear where I remembered to jot them down … but in many cases, I was too enamored of the wine to do more than just sip.

In no particular order:

Discovered this at BubblyFest, and have since enjoyed it several times

Discovered this at BubblyFest, and have since enjoyed it several times

Mosby Wines Stelline di Cortese: (“Little Stars of Cortese”), California (estate) sparkling, NV (BubblyFest, October)

2013 Dreamcote Wines Malvasia Bianca: Lively. And, as the label states: “Life’s short; Drink what you like.” (Private tasting, December)

2012 Cholame Vineyard “Summer Shade,” Grenache Blanc: La Presa Vineyard. Crisp and complex.(Garagiste Festival, Southern Exposure, March 2014). Cholame Vineyard features longtime local winemaker/vineyard manager Andy Ibarra as winemaker.

2012 Dragonette Cellars Sauvignon Blanc: Vogelzang Vineyard. Straw colored, and more viscous, less brisk. (bottle purchase)

2010 Clos Pepe Barrel Select Chardonnay: (bottle purchase)

This wine strengthens my vow to consume more Italian varietals.

This wine strengthens my vow to consume more Italian varietals.

2010 Ethan Wines Nebbiolo: Stolpman Vineyards (bottle purchase)

2011 Sillix Wines Syrah:  (first tasted at Garagiste Festival, Southern Exposure, March 2014), (bottle purchase)

2013 Lindley Wines Chardonnay: estate (private tasting, December)

2102 Carucci Wines Viognier, White Hawk Vineyard: (Garagiste Festival, Southern Exposure, March 2014)

True confession: I've had a lot of this wine over the years. A LOT. And it never loses its allure.

True confessions: I’ve had a lot of this wine over the years. A LOT. And it never loses its allure.

2010 Jalama Wines “El Capitan:” (Blend of syrah, mourvedre and cabernet sauvignon) (bottle purchase)

2013 Alta Maria Wines Carbonic Pinot Noir: whole cluster, 100 percent carbonic maceration, bottled four months after harvest (tasting room)

As you can see, I couldn't choose just one pink wine. Here are my three dead-heat favorites: Hitching Post, Dragonette Cellars and Andrew Murray Vineyards.

As you can see, I couldn’t choose just one pink wine. Here are my three dead-heat favorites: Hitching Post, Dragonette Cellars and Andrew Murray Vineyards.

2013 Hitching Post Rosé; 2013 Dragonette Cellars Rosé (Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara); and 2013 Andrew Murray Vineyards, Esperance Rosé. (Bottle purchase, all three; the HP is pinot noir and the other two are Rhone blends)

2010 Samsara Wine Grenache: Spectacular. (bottle purchase)

2009 A-non-ah-mus Grenache: D’Vine Wine Bar, by the glass

2009 Stolpman Vineyards L’Avion: Roussanne, (bottle purchase)

2012 Stolpman Vineyards Estate Grown Syrah: (Wine Bloggers’ Conference seminar: “Syrah Terrority, Ballard Canyon,” July; and again during Celebration of Harvest seminar, October)

2011 Brave and Maiden “Union:” Blend of syrah, merlot and cabernet franc. Beautifully dusty. (Wandering Dog Wine Bar, by the glass)

2010 No Limit Wine “The Nutz” Syrah: (private tasting, December)

2012 Big Tar Wines Cabernet Sauvignon: Winemaker Aaron Watty’s goal is food-friendly wines, and he nails it with this silky beauty. (private tasting, December)

While I tasted all four of these Rack and Riddle bubblies, the Blanc de Noirs gets my top vote

While I tasted all four of these Rack and Riddle bubblies, the Blanc de Blancs gets my top vote

Rack and Riddle North Coast Blanc de Blancs: (100 percent chardonnay, NV) (BubblyFest, October)

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Garagiste showcases Ballard Canyon Grenaches and Syrahs, and winemakers

31 Monday Mar 2014

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Ballard Canyon Road American Viticultural Area, Doug Minnick, Garagiste Festival: Southern Exposure, Kaena Wines, Larner Vineyard, Larner Winery, Larry Schaffer, Michael Larner, Mikael Sigouin, Santa Barbara Vintners, Stewart McLennan, Tercero Wines

My Saturday started at 4:30 a.m.

However, “early to work” meant “early off work” — just in time to slide into an empty seat for “RhônesRule: The Wines of Ballard Canyon,” the first of two seminars during “Southern Exposure: The Garagiste Festival” at the Solvang Veterans Hall.

Stewart McLennan, co-founder of the Garagiste Festivals with Doug Minnick, moderated a panel of winemakers who source from vineyards in Ballard Canyon.

McLennan led winemakers Michael Larner, Larry Schaffer and Mikael Sigouin through an hour-long discussion of the merits of Ballard Canyon, the newest of Santa Barbara County’s five American Viticultural Areas (AVAs).

The three men are friends and their back-and-forth banter with McLennan about Santa Barbara County versus Paso Robles (also a Rhône superstar) and winemaking styles kept the audience attentive.

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) approved the petition to designate Ballard Canyon last October. “The approval came right in the middle of harvest last year,” Larner said. “We’re very excited to be able to take ‘Santa Ynez Valley’ off labels and be able to add ‘Ballard Canyon’ (to future vintages still in the barrel or tank).”

Crucial to a petition for an AVA is the research outlining the weather (rainfall and degree days), and particulars of soil, including bedrock and lichen, Larner noted. His family’s vineyard is comprised of sand — a factor key both to the distinctness of the AVA and to the grape varietals that best thrive in its soils.

The two Rhône grapes most prevalent in Ballard Canyon are Syrah, with 274 acres planted, and Grenache, with 61, according to Santa Barbara Vintners.

McLennan and Minnick crafted Saturday morning’s seminar around those two red grapes, featuring two by each of the three winemakers.

Following is the order in which we tasted, comments from the winemakers and my brief notes on each.

~ Kaena 2011 Grenache, Tierra Alta Vineyard: Sigouin, who said he first worked with Grenache for Beckmen (where he’s still the winemaker) called Ballard Canyon “a sweet spot for Grenache,” and this vintage of his Kaena exemplifies that. I wrote: “Feminine but with solid tannins.” Clone: Tablas A.

~ Kaena 2011 Grenache, Larner Vineyard: Sigouin emphasized Larner Vineyard’s sandy soils, and the south-facing block from which this vintage hailed. “Every year, Larner is the most solid of all the vineyards I work with,” he said. This was my favorite of the three grenaches (two from Kaena, one from Tercero). It’s balanced and elegant. Clone: ENTAV 362

~ Tercero 2009 Grenache, Larner Vineyard: Schaffer, who has sourced Grenache from Larner since 2008, is a huge supporter of the varietal — in Santa Barbara County in particular. This is a big wine, one that’s short on nuance but long on life. Put it down for five years (IMO).

And then came Syrahs:

~ Tercero 2009 Syrah, Larner Vineyard: This was aged for a whopping 42 months in neutral French oak, Schaffer said, and co-fermented with 5 percent viognier (which I swear I can discern, on the very end of the lengthy finish). This wine is bold but contains layers of flavors.

Larner’s two wines were 2009 and 2010 estate Syrahs. After the attendees had tasted both, Larner posed a question: Did we think the two vintages were more similar, or more different? I and a few other participants voted similar; the majority of the room voted dissimilar. (It’s all right; I stand by my palate).

Both vintages’ clones are 3, 383, 877 and Estrella, but the 2010 contains seven clonal lots and the 2009 just five — all fermented individually, according to Larner’s notes. The 2009 saw 18 months in 30 percent new French oak, and the 2010 was aged in similar barrels, but for 22 months. Both vintages were aged six months in bottle before being released.

The difference between the two, barrel wise: The 2010 utilized 5 percent new American oak barrels, and the 2009 just the French oak.

I favored the 2010 over the 2009 for its “clarity, elegance and lovely finish.” The 2009, I wrote, has “more cherry and less finish.”

Thanks to McLennan, Minnick, Dave and Lisa Dinsmore and Melanie Webber for another superb weekend of Garagiste wine and winemakers.

Coming next: Saturday afternoon with the Garagiste producers.

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Meet two local Garagistes: Ron Hill and Angela Soleno

19 Wednesday Mar 2014

Posted by lauriejervis in Faces Behind the Wine, Garagiste Festival: Southern Exposure, Winemaking

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A-non-ah-mus Wines, Angela Soleno, Ballard Canyon Road American Viticultural Area, C2 Cellars, Garagiste Festival: Southern Exposure, Lompoc Rotary Club, Ron Hill, Turiya Wines

Let me introduce two of the winemakers participating in the March 29 and 30 Garagiste Festival: Southern Exposure: Ron Hill, owner and winemaker of a-non-a-mus of Orcutt, and Angela Soleno, owner and winemaker of Turiya wines, based in Lompoc.

Hill pours during the grand tasting Sunday, and Solena on Saturday. This is his second trip to Southern Exposure, but her first.

Ron Hill, left, and friend Andrew, at the recent Rotary Winetasting event in Lompoc

Ron Hill, left, and friend Andrew, at the recent Rotary Winetasting event in Lompoc

First, I’ll let Hill tell his tale, outlined to me via e-mail:

“My case production in 2013 was 340 cases, and consists of small lots of rosé, viognier, syrah, grenache and pinot noir.

“I make my wines in a small corner at C2 Cellars in Orcutt, and I would like to give a big shout out to the Cuevas Brothers and crew for putting up with me these last three years.

“I live in Santa Maria and have two Rhodesian Ridgebacks — Jack and Lily — that have appeared in more wine-related publications than I have (how’s that for being anonymous!).

I asked Hill, a native of Kansas, how he came up with the name of his label, which, to be honest, is quite unusual.

“When I started the task of coming up with a name for label, back in 2008, I never thought that an original name would be so difficult to come up with,” he said. “I spent countless hours thumbing through dictionaries and thesauruses looking for a name that was “catchy” and wasn’t either trademarked or already in commerce, thus making it unusable.”

Like many others, Hill wanted his label to “be about the wine” and not simply the name on the bottle.

Choosing “a-non-ah-mus” turned out be “as close to ‘anonymous’ as I could get,” Hill reflected. With the help of a good trademark attorney, “now I own them both.”

Hill has started a wine club for a-non-ah-mus and hopes to grow slowly, with a goal of 500 cases by next year, he noted. In addition, he wants to start sourcing grapes from “unique little vineyards that aren’t that well known, and plans to bring grenache blanc, mourvèdre and a blend into his line up.

Without a tasting room, Hill offers tastings only by appointment.

Hill left a long-term career as a respiratory care practitioner, both in Kansas and — seeking a warmer climate — Arizona, followed by California. (Note: When you meet Hill, ask him about the incident involving a long scarf and a snow blower).

After about 20 years working in hospital ICUs, Hill, now 53, wanted a change.

He caught the winemaking bug “quite by accident” from a neighbor when he lived in San Jose.

“He ran with a group of five close friends, and they all made their own wines — which all were very different,” Hill recalled. “I actually learned a lot from observing them make their true “garage wines.”

Years later, Hill recalled, “I took a bottle of my neighbor’s garage wine and ran every test I could in the lab at the winery where I worked.

As is often the case with the tiniest of wine makers, who are meticulous in crafting wine, Hill’s friend’s “garage” wine had “perfect numbers” despite never having been tested with a pH meter or ebulometer, he said.

In 2001, Hill began his winemaking career in earnest as a harvest intern at Babcock Winery, where he worked his way up to associate winemaker. He remained at Babcock until 2011, when he left to focus on being, well, a-non-ah-mus.

Angela Soleno and a bottle of her "Perpetual Bliss," a blend of cabernet sauvignon and syrah

Angela Soleno and a bottle of her “Perpetual Bliss,” a blend of cabernet sauvignon and syrah

I caught up with Angela Soleno at Corner House Coffee in Los Olivos early in March. Several years ago, I met Soleno in her previous life — working in marketing and shipping at Consilience Wines in Los Olivos, “wearing many hats,” she recalled. She worked there for about six years.

Now she wears just one hat — winemaker — and, in fact, has just left her “day job” of two years, as caretaker at Figueroa Mountain Ranch.

“I’ve found my calling! I’m done,” Soleno laughed, obviously excited about what lies ahead for her label.

Like Hill, Soleno, 34, made her first vintage in 2008, choosing to call it Turiya, which means “a state of consciousness wherein reality and truth are harmonious.”

Her first vintage was three different wines, all reds, with a total production of 96 cases. Soleno’s focus is “mostly Bordeauxs and some sangiovese,” made with grapes from one of the region’s best sangiovese sites, Stolpman Vineyard, on Ballard Canyon Road.

Because she started small and has stayed that way, Soleno still has some of her initial vintage left for tasting – and sales. Like her 60/40 cabernet sauvignon and syrah blend, “Perpetual Bliss,” with grapes sourced from Camp 4 Vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley.

Again, like Hill, Soleno doesn’t have a tasting room, but is more than happy to allow by-appointment tastings inside the winery space she shares with Peter Scott of Scott Cellars on F Street in Lompoc.

A single mother of two children, Veronica, 17, and Trenton, 11, Soleno has a firm grip on her future:

When I ask, any future plans for a tasting room? “No, never!”

Do you plan to grow above 500 cases? “No, I only want to produce enough for an allocation list, so that I can sell out every vintage.”

And, while she likes white wines made by other winemakers (Tessa Marie Parker’s sparkling vermentino, for example), Soleno vows she’s “never gonna make a white wine” herself.

Soleno is a big fan of the natural acidity in wines, especially reds, especially Italian reds, and looks forward to getting her hands on some Aglianico, perhaps from French Camp Vineyards outside Santa Margarita in San Luis Obispo County, she said.

“The more obscure the varietals, the better.”

Before she releases them, Soleno ages her wines in barrel for 36 months, and then for an additional year in the bottle.

“I like ‘finished’ wines. I wait until the wine tells me it’s ready, and then I go from there.”

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Celebrating Ballard Canyon AVA

16 Saturday Nov 2013

Posted by lauriejervis in Vineyards and Viticulture, Winemaking

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Ballard Canyon Road American Viticultural Area, Coastal Vineyard Care Associates, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara AVA, Jonata, Michael Larner, Rusack Vineyards, Sta. Rita Hills AVA, Stolpman Vineyard, Wes Hagen

As a chilly fall wind whipped around tall oaks and rows of vines at Rusack Vineyards Friday afternoon, a festive group of winemakers, vineyard owners or managers and wine journalists raised a glass to celebrate the new Ballard Canyon American Viticultural Area.

A table laden with wines from many of the winemakers/growers included in the AVA — Beckmen, Harrison Clarke, Jorian HIlls, Larner and Rusack among them — accompanied fresh tacos prepared by a team led by Ruben Solorzano, Coastal Vineyard Care Associates’ viticulturist extraordinaire and vineyard manager at nearby Stolpman Vineyards.

Michael Larner, owner with his family of Larner Vineyards and the Larner Winery label, is the president of the new Ballard Canyon Wine Growers’ Alliance (www.ballardcanyonava.com; website in the works). Larner and  Wes Hagen, winemaker and vineyard manager at Clos Pepe Vineyards in the Sta. Rita Hills, are the voice and the researcher, respectively, behind the new AVA.

Ballard Canyon is the third effort led by Hagen to distinguish the the varied climates and soils that comprise Santa Barbara County. The Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara and Sta. Rita Hills were his previous two AVA successes, approved after months of research on Hagen’s part.

The winemakers and wine growers included in Ballard Canyon are Purisima Mountain (Beckmen), Boa Vista, Brownell’s Viejo Vineyard, Capazzo Vineyard, Daly, Dohlmeyer, Finkle Family Vineyards, Harrison Clarke, Hinnrichs, Jorian Hill, Kimsey, Jonata, Larner, Rusack, Saarloos and Sons’ Windmill Ranch, Stolpman, Tierra Alta and Willingham Vineyard, according to a prior news release from the Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association, led by Morgen McLaughlin.

Welcome to SBCO, Ballard Canyon AVA

25 Friday Oct 2013

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While it’s not “official” until Oct. 30, it’s a done deal, according to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB): Ballard Canyon is Santa Barbara County’s fifth official AVA, or American Viticultural Area.

It joins the Santa Ynez Valley, Sta. Rita Hills, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara and the Santa Maria Valley.

Ballard Canyon encompasses 7,800 acres, and joins both the Sta. Rita Hills and Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara AVAs as sub-regions inside the larger Santa Ynez Valley.

“The 18 vintners in the Ballard Canyon AVA have always recognized the unique potential of this site,” said Michael Larner, president of the newly former Ballard Canyon Winegrowers’ Alliance.

“We see it each year, in the high quality of fruit we pick, and in the fine wines we craft. We have always known that we occupy a special space at the heart of the Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Barbara County.

The Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association provided statistics on the acreage and type of grape varietals currently growing in Ballard Canyon vineyards.

Syrah leads the pack of red grape varietals planted  with 274 acres, followed by grenache, at 61. The others, rounded to the nearest acre, are: sangiovese, 26; nebbiolo, 10; cabernet sauvignon, 29; cabernet franc, 20; merlot, 9; petit verdot, 5; petite sirah, 6; mourvedre, 7; tempranillo, 4; counoise, 3; zinfandel, 2; and cinsault, 1.

The total acres planted to red wine grapes are 458; of those, Rhone varietals are 76 percent; Bordeaux, 14; Italian, 8; and California “Heritage,” 2 percent.

Next, white wine grape varietals, by acre, are roussanne, 16; marsanne, 4; viognier, 20; grenache blanc, 7; sauvignon blanc; 31; semillon, 3; and malvasia bianca, 2.

Total: 83 acres planted to white grape varietals, with 57 percent Rhone, 40 percent Bordeaux and Italian, 2.

The winemakers and wine growers included in Ballard Canyon are Purisima Mountain (Beckmen), Boa Vista, Brownell’s Viejo Vineyard, Capazzo Vineyard, Daly, Dohlmeyer, Finkle Family Vineyards, Harrison Clarke, Hinnrichs, Jorian Hill, Kimsey, Jonata, Larner, Rusack, Saarloos and Sons’ Windmill Ranch, Stolpman, Tierra Alta and Willingham Vineyard, according to the SBCVA.

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Thursday’s Bottle

27 Friday Sep 2013

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Ballard Canyon Road American Viticultural Area, Clos Pepe Estates, Grenache, Santa Ynez Valley, syrah, Wes Hagen

2010 Axis Mundi Grenache/Syrah

Axis Mundi is the center of the world, and in mythology, the connection between Heaven and Earth.

While until today I wasn’t sure of the Axis Mundi definition, I am familiar with this particular wine — although it’s been a while since I’ve enjoyed it.

If anyone would name a label Axis Mundi, it would be Wes Hagen, the erudite viticulturist and winemaker behind Clos Pepe Estates. Axis is his second label.

This bright Rhone blend is 67 percent grenache and 33 percent syrah from Windmill Vineyards on Ballard Canyon Road in the brand new Ballard Canyon Road American Viticultural Area, a sub-appellation of the greater Santa Ynez Valley AVA.

Hagen keeps this blend a vivid expression of the typical grenache — full of just-ripe strawberry with the slightest hint of cherry smoked tobacco and spice.

This wine is light in color, but full of flavor. I sipped it just last night with a spicy tortilla soup and it proudly held its own. It’s definitely a food-friendly wine.

Released February 2012. Retail: $29. Neither Clos Pepe or Axis Mundi has a tasting room, but the wines are available online at www.clospepe.com and can be found at Taste of the Sta. Rita Hills in the
Lompoc Wine Ghetto

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