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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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WS #4 2019 Wine of the Year, 96 Points, Wine Spectator
2016 was an incredibly special year in Napa Valley. It was essentially the 5th straight vintage of near perfect-conditions and a lot of the big boys produced some of their biggest, most elegant Cabernets to date. Groth’s was still one of the standouts in any group, a deeply concentrated, weighty Cab with sappy, juicy fruit and a carefully intertwined tannic structure. Absolutely gorgeous.
This one comes from very old vines in eight different lieux-dits, with the largest portion coming from Le Fourneau. Harvest is all by hand, and this wine sees 18 months in barrels with only 10% new oak. Clement (rightfully) believes that keeping the oak primarily neutral here brings out the most authentic and intense expression of his Pinot Noirs. Take a sip or two of this and you will know exactly what I mean.
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.
Winemaker Patrick Brunet’s tiny Domaine Robert estate consists of 50-60 year old vines, deeply rooted in the granitic soils of Fleurie. What I love about him is that every vintage brings something new but it consistently stays excellent. For his 2022 cuvee, Patrick produced a concentrated, structured Beaujolais that’s roaring out of the gates but with the bones to improve in the bottle over the next decade. This is always a fantastic bottle to have around.
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