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When it comes to the best winemaking projects in the country, you’d be remiss if you didn’t mention the Rajat Parr and Sashi Moorman connection.
Individually, the two have a resume as impressive as anyone in their field. Rajat Parr is a world famous sommelier and James beard winning author who has won pretty much every award in the business. He was a disciple of Larry Stones and became the wine director at Rubicon, as well as RN74, Michael Mina restaurants to name a few. Sashi is a former chef turned winemaker who helped make some of the best wines in Santa Barbara for over 10 years. He first did it with the wizard Adam Tolmach at Ojai and then later with Pete Stolpman at Stolpman Vineyards.
But when these two stars collided in 2010, they came up with the idea for Sandhi – a project to unlock the next level of California winemaking with the help of their unique backgrounds. The concept is simple: small production wines only focusing on the best vineyards of Sta. Rita Hills. The two would also combine to create Evening Land in Oregon – a project that furthered their fame and put Seven Springs Vineyard and these two stars to the national spotlight.
At this point, both Sandhi and Evening Land have firmly etched their names amongst the elite in both Southern California and Oregon, a feat that’s not completely unheard of with Tony Soter paving that way, but Tony didn’t balance both like these rock stars do!
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96 Points, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
The 2021 Pinot Noir Sta. Rita Hills has a medium ruby color and pretty scents of cinnamon stick, aniseed, iron, underbrush and charcuterie with a core of red cherries and cranberries. Medium-bodied yet very concentrated, it has a powdery frame, sparks of refreshing acidity and a very long, graphite-driven finish. Precise and detailed, it deserves to spend another 2-3 years in bottle.
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With seemingly infinite access to some of the absolute very best vineyards in the most choice AVAs in the valley, the Wagner’s set out to make Quilt– a Cabernet blend from a patchwork of the top sites in Napa (Oakville, St Helena, Atlas Peak, Coombsville, Calistoga, and Howell Mountain.) The brand new 2021 edition is a beauty – deeply concentrated, rich and a truly show stopping Cabernet. It’s a dark, hedonistic blend that combines elegance with power and pairs the two together effortlessly.
The newly released Fiancetto Howell Mt. Cabernet is a dream – a gorgeous, elegant dark-fruited Cabernet Sauvignon that is it picks up time in the glass, unfurls its full signature of cedar laced cassis nose and mid palate of chocolate-covered cherries and savory spices. Only four palates of this (224 cases) were made off a gorgeous, sprawling high elevation spot 1500 feet above sea level. It’s full and plush and finishes fresh and oh so long. The price is crazy for Howell Mountain Cabernet but that’s what Ry Richards and Fiancetto is all about.
91 Points, Wine Enthusiast
Always the one with the most personality of the bunch, this is what Wine Enthusiast had to say about the 2021 release: “This extremely ripe and bold style of Pinot Noir will please those seeking such lushness. Dark in the glass, it begins with black cherry, toasty caramel and cola milk shake aromas.” The cool, coastal days and abundance of sunshine lines up perfectly for a wine that has a good natural acidic backbone, with bold fruit-forward flavors. In an easy 2021 vintage, Joe Wagner had a field day with this single-vineyard beauty.
In the 2020 vintage in Gevrey-Chambertin, yields were super low and temperatures were hotter than most Burgundian winemakers are accustomed. Many picked too late when the sugars were high and the fruit really ripe, but that was not the play. Still, Ann remained as cool in those hot temps as she did so many years ago in Napa, concentrating more on acid levels than sugars and picking at just the right time. This wine is absolutely singing – it’s an age-worthy beauty that should be even better in 4-7 years.
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