The wine is delicious but takes a minute to open up. Once it does, it’s brimming with red fruits and spice. Serve it with the juiciest, flashiest steak, hamburger or sausage on your grill.
The 2018 Grenache Alisos Vineyard is bright, floral and effusive. Soft and open knit the 2018 Grenache shows off compelling notes of blood orange, cherries in liqueur, spice and mint. There is so much to like here.
The 2019 Cinsault Camp 4 Vineyard has a pale ruby-purple color and autumnal scents of fallen leaves, earth and iron with tones of red cherries, citrus peel and mushrooms. The palate is bright, juicy and floral, supple and appealing, and it finishes with ethereal spicy accents.92 Pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Pepper and clove introduce licorice brushed aromas of plum, strawberry, raspberry and citrus that define an astonishingly light body. This is a wine that won’t overpower vegetable or seafood and can also stand up to big game. Serve cool.
Our 2019 Alisos Grenache is smooth and elegant with dense flavors of ripe plum, fresh dark cherry and licorice. Herbal and earthy notes make for the overall impression of a well-balanced wine.
The 2019 Mourvedre Camp Four Vineyard is an incredibly distinctive wine. Perfumed and savory, with terrific energy, the Mourvedre is so expressive. Red-fleshed fruit and bright acids lend energy to medium-bodied wine that overdelivers in so many ways. 94 pts Antonio Galloni
The 2019 Pape Star Blonde is straight-up impressive and reminds me of a great Châteauneuf du Pape Blanc. A blend of 80% Grenache Blanc and 20% Roussanne, it has ripe quince and pineapple fruits, some honeyed herb and toasty notes, medium body, and a layered, textured, yet light-on-its-feet style on the palate that's going to shine on the dinner table. 94 Pts Jeb Dunnuck
Our versatile take on France’sChâteauneuf-du-Pape is made with Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah and Cinsualt. Custom blended each vintage and aged in neutral oak, this crowd-pleasing wine strikes a perfect balance between bright red fruit, spice and earth. Year after year, our Pape Star remains a fan favorite for its medium-bodied weight, elegant texture and versatility when it comes to pairing wine and food.
We started this project in 2013, making just 69 odd cases with the help of Michael Cruse in Petaluma. Since then we have been refining our techniques in our own cellars. This bottling, made 100% at our Goleta winery in the true Methode Champenoise, is bone dry, with zero dosage. You’ll find it clean and crisp, though pleasingly complex, with lovely signature Jurassic Park flavors of apricot and quince throughout.
The 2019 Syrah Alisos Vineyard is stunning. Rich, vibrant and full of character, the 2019 captures all the best this site has to offer. The purity of the flavors, the aromatics, the textural feel, they are all those of a magnificent, hugely pedigreed wine. Silky tannins wrap it all together in style. The 2019 Alisos Syrah is another magnificent effort from Magan Eng. 96 pts Antonio Galloni
Nothing other than grapes were added or used in its creation. The wild yeasts that were on the skins completed the fermentation and the anti-oxidants in the skins and seeds provided all the protection necessary during elevage and bottling. No sulfur was added to this wine at any time, nor was it fined or filtered prior to bottling.
