Santa Barbara County

Trader Joe’s Reserve Santa Barbara Pinot Noir 2021

The Trader Joe’s Reserve Santa Barbara Pinot Noir 2021 is a $9.99 TJ’s exclusive. This wine was “produced and bottled by” Bozzano and Company. That indicates that they actually made the wine and used grapes from their vineyards or contracted grapes they control. They produce several brands seen on Trader Joe’s shelves. It is rare…

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Trader Joe’s Reserve Santa Barbara County Chardonnay 2021

The Trader Joe’s Reserve Santa Barbara County Chardonnay 2021 is a $9.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. The back label says it was made by Ashford Court who also made Trader Joe’s perennial favorite, Cotillion Pinot Noir. The actual producer of Cotillion is Plata Wine Partners of Napa, California. You may have not heard of Plata Wine…

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Fess Parker Santa Barbara Chardonnay 2021

The Fess Parker Santa Barbara Chardonnay 2021 sells for $13.89 at Costco and an average of $17 elsewhere, though the prices vary greatly. The grapes were sourced from 7 high-end vineyards situated throughout Santa Barbara County. Santa Barbara County is located about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, which should be too warm to grow…

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Trader Joe’s Petit Reserve Santa Barbara County Chardonnay 2020

The Trader Joe’s Petit Reserve Santa Barbara County Chardonnay 2020 is a $7.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive made for TJ’s by ABJ Wines from Geyserville, California. According to the California Wine COLA, ABJ Wines is August Briggs, Jr. There is an August Briggs WInery in Napa that August no longer owns, it looks like this is…

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Cotillion Pinot Noir 2017

The Story The Cotillion Pinot Noir 2017 is a Trader Joe’s $9.99 exclusive brand sourced from vineyards in 56% Monterey County, 33% Sonoma County, and 11% Santa Barbara County in California. Under usual circumstances, this is a wine that would show ‘California‘ on the front label as a place of origin since 67% of the…

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Meiomi Rose’ 2017

The Meiomi Rose’ 2017 is mainly a Rose’ of Pinot Noir sourced from vineyards in 54% Monterey County, 36% Sonoma County, and 10% Santa Barbara County which are all first class areas for growing Pinot Noir. In a side note, wines that feature grapes from both the Central Coast AVA and the North Coast AVA, such as…

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Cotillion Pinot Noir 2013

The Cotillion Pinot Noir 2013 is a $9.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive sourced from vineyards in 60% Monterey County, 24% Sonoma County and 16% Santa Barbara County. Santa Barbara County is about an hour north of Los Angles, Monterey County is north of Paso Robles and both are part of the Central Coast AVA. Sonoma County…

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Four Vines Naked Chardonnay 2012

  The 2012 Four Vines Naked Chardonnay is sourced from vineyards in the Santa Barbara County AVA on the southern end of California’s Central Coast AVA. Santa Barbara is about 1 1/2 hours north of Los Angeles in Southern California, but it gets cooling fog in the morning and while the days can be hot, the…

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Seaglass Unoaked Chardonnay 2012

The 2012 Seaglass Unoaked Chardonnay is sourced from Trinchero Family Estates (Seaglass is one of their labels) 585 acre “Los Alamos” vineyard in Santa Barbara County on the southern end of the Central Coast AVA. Santa Barbara is about 120 miles north of Los Angeles and it borders on the Pacific Ocean. The Seaglass Chardonnay…

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Newman’s Own Chardonnay 2011

The 2011 Newman’s Own Chardonnay is sourced from several California Coastal vineyards, but mainly vineyards located in Santa Barbara and Monterey Counties. Newman’s Own wines are one of Rebel Wines labels, they also do The Show, Bandit and 3 Thieves wines. Newman’s Own food and wine products started when Paul Newman decided not to give…

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2008 Cameron Hughes Santa Ynez Valley Meritage Lot 254

The 2008 Cameron Hughes Santa Ynez Valley Meritage (means the grapes used in the blend are the same varietal grapes approved for wines from Bordeaux, France) Blend is 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Cabernet Franc, 12% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot and 4% Malbec that are sourced from vineyards and a winery in the Happy Canyon AVA…

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Queen of Hearts 2009 Pinot Noir

I picked up this wine because I’d heard good things, it was $15.99, and I like a vineyard that has some fun with their label. I was rewarded with a good, full-bodied, surprisingly boozy Pinot Noir. Made from 100% Pinot Noir grapes and hailing from my one of my favorite wine areas, Santa Barbara County,…

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