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| We arrived on Friday in Santa Maria, about 30 miles north of Lompoc and the heart of the Santa Barbara Pinot Noir region until the rise of Santa Rita Hills (*Sta. Rita Hills) in the late 90's and early 2000s. Richard Sanford, Wes Hagen and Brian Babcock spear-headed the creation of the Santa Rita Hills AVA. Since then a great number of new vineyards have been created in the region and production has grown to try to meet demand. There will be an article in September called "Sideways-Nowadays" that will chronicle events in the Santa Rita Hills, Santa Maria, Sant Ynez and Santa Barbara AVAs over the past 7-8 years. | Clos Pepe Vineyards grapes are sold to many of the finest producers in California including Loring, Siduri, Ken Brown and others. The Clos Pepe Vineyard Select and regular estate bottlings are available as futures now. The 2005 are available for purchase at the website: www.clospepe.com
The reviews will be published soon under ratings. So check back in September. Call Clos Pepe for an appointment: |
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Our ratings: 2004 Siduri "Clos Pepe'" 92 points, 2005 Loring "Clos Pepe" 90 points, 2004 Loring "Clos Pepe" 88 points, 2004 Clos Pepe 93 points, 2005 Clos Pepe 92 points, 2005 A.P. Vin "Clos Pepe" 93 points, 2004 Roessler "Clos Pepe" 93 points, and the Le Vie "Clos Pepe" 88 points. And not to be left behind 1995 Domain la Romanee Conti "La Tache" 97 points (but it's $1100 a bottle!). Here is a current list of outside prodcuers of Clos Pepe Vineyards, as of Harvest 2007, include Brewer-Clifton, Ken Brown, Siduri, Loring Wine Company, AP Vin, Diatom (Chardonnay only), Ojai Vineyard (PN and Chardonnay), Roessler (Chardonnay and PN) and Copain. All of these wineries vineyard designate their Clos Pepe wines. Wineries that no longer make Clos Pepe wines, but did in previous vintages, include L'aventure, Au Bon Climat, Hitching Post, Testarossa, Arcadian, Babcock, Vino V and Carr Wines. |
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