Winemaker Notes
Despite the longer hang-time, the 2018 profile is the brightest and zippiest yet. Lighter in color, 2018 Love You Bunches leans more towards the profile of a rose wine than a red. Terms like crushable, mashable, glug-glug, glou-glou… all fit the downright deliciousness of this wine. Red notes of fresh-picked, juicy cherry and berry ride high over ruby grapefruit and zesty tangerine.
Don’t forget to drink it cold, during the day (or all night with most any cuisine), and don’t be caught with just one bottle in the cooler – it will be empty in a flash and your guests will demand more!
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
The “Love You Bunches” Carbonic Sangiovese from Stolpman Vineyards is a great example of the fun-loving, laid-back culture that permeates even the most serious Santa Barbara County wine projects. Meant to be drunk chilled, the nose here is juicy and grapey with a wonderful, perfumed funk hanging in the background. Flavors of raspberries, black cherries and slate. Simple in a delightful way, and at home with practically anything that could be on your dinner (or lunch) table.
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Wine Enthusiast
This carbonic Sangiovese is all about freshness, starting with aromas of crushed red currant, raspberry, watermelon and red flowers. Very light in the glass, the wine is tremendously zippy on the sip and nearly effervescent, offering easy-to-quaff flavors of melon and berry
Among Italy's elite red grape varieties, Sangiovese has the perfect intersection of bright red fruit and savory earthiness and is responsible for the best red wines of Tuscany. While it is best known as the chief component of Chianti, it is also the main grape in Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and reaches the height of its power and intensity in the complex, long-lived Brunello di Montalcino. Somm Secret—Sangiovese doubles under the alias, Nielluccio, on the French island of Corsica where it produces distinctly floral and refreshing reds and rosés.
Accounting for only ten percent of the greater Santa Ynez AVA, Ballard Canyon’s north-south orientation provides an ideal pattern of sunshine and martime fog for producing excellent Syrah. While Syrah is planted to half of the total AVA acreage, an additional third is dedicated to other Rhône varieties, red and white.