Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Vinous
The 2024 White Estate M5 is texturally rich and weighted yet mouthwateringly fresh. Verging on opulent, it pours from the glass with a thick blanket of sweet white nectarine, lychee and honeyed white flowers. This is very perfumed and in-your-face, but it maintains balance. The warm vintage really pushed the ripeness forward here.
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Wine Spectator
This intriguing white combines subtle notes of honeysuckle and chamomile with fleshy melon and quince flavors on a smooth frame, with crunchy, minerally acidity chiming in on the finish. Marsanne, Grenache Blanc, Roussanne, Picpoul Blanc and Viognier.
Full-bodied and flavorful, white Rhône blends originate from France’s Rhône Valley. Today these blends are also becoming popular in other regions. Typically some combination of Grenache Blanc, Marsanne, Roussanne and Viognier form the basis of a white Rhône blend with varying degrees of flexibility depending on the exact appellation. Somm Secret—In the Northern Rhône, blends of Marsanne and Roussanne are common but the south retains more variety. Marsanne, Roussanne as well as Bourboulenc, Clairette, Picpoul and Ugni Blanc are typical.
Today it is an integral part of the greater Santa Barbara County wine region, but at one time the village, Los Olivos, was a stop on the Wells Fargo stagecoach line.