From the Lucas & Lewellen vineyards in Santa Barbara County, Louis Lucas selects choice lots for a limited production of premium wines. Attention to detail in the vineyards yields superior quality grapes from which Megan McGrath Gates crafts award winning wines. The vineyards of Lucas & Lewellen are located in the three principal wine grape growing regions of Santa Barbara County: the Santa Maria Valley, the Los Alamos Valley, and the Santa Ynez Valley. These valleys all run west from the coastal mountains to the Pacific Ocean, allowing warm days and cool nights to produce a long, gentle growing season.
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Vineyard NotesThe Los Alamos Vineyard is a cool climate vineyard in the Santa Barbara County AVA. Stretching for over a mile of Highway 101 frontage just south of the town of Los Alamos, these vineyards are home to over 20 varieties of grapes, representing the principal varieties of the Rhone, Burgundy and Bordeaux regions of France, as well as Italian varieties. With some of the vines planted from cuttings brought from Europe over 25 years ago, these vineyards have long been a favorite source for many of California's best wineries.
Winemaker Notes
Pinot Noir is among the very most versatile of red wines and represents a safe, sound choice for a wide variety of foods. We grow Pinot Noir in our cool, Santa Barbara County vineyards to ensure a balanced, flavorful wine. 2008 was a challenging weather year and the vines were tended carefully. This lovely Pinot was fermented in small batches, aged in oak barrels, carefully blended and bottled at the peak of quality. This vintage has aromas of ripe blackberry, black cherry, and cola with smooth fruit driven flavors of plum, strawberry and warm spices. Enjoy frequently!
Vineyard: Los Alamos
Composition: Pinot Noir Fermentation: Punch down Alcohol: 13.9% pH: 3.66 Production: 7423 cases Shop Now:
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