A broad, creamy, languid style, with lots of warm brioche, butter and creamed melon and apple flavors. Lush and hedonistic in feel, but successful overall. For fans of the style. Drink now. 1,000 cases made.

A flamboyant Chard, packed with tropical fruit flavors and with a lavish overlay of smoky oak. Feels crisp and clean in the mouth, with a creamy texture and a long, spicy finish. Could use a bit more finesse and subtley, but glamorous and exciting.

More evolved color suggests consumption over the next 1-2 years is warranted. This is a medium to full-bodied, hedonistic, sexy, delicious, open-knit, tropical fruit-dominated (jammy peaches and apricots) offering.

Rich, with creamy fig, vanilla, pear, hazelnut and spice notes that are long and tasty. A delicious mouthful of Chardonnay. Drink now through 2005.

This wine has aged about like we expected to since we rated it 91points in our July 2001 issue. Big tropical fruit is still going strong, backed up by toasty, mentholly oak.

A rosé with a dark salmon color and a reasonably intense floral and red berry perfume, this is an attractive wine from the get-go. That impression of red fruits continues on the palate, with hints of strawberry, cranberry, watermelon.

COMMENTARY: Pink wines are a serious business. The Cambria Estate has successfully navigated this wine to move folks from the blush side to the bonafide rosé category, and this is no easy feat. TASTING NOTES: The 2016 Cambria Rosé of Pinot Noir exhibits loads of ripe red fruit and dried earth aromas and flavors. The weight and richness on the palate square puts this wine in the food wine category. Pair its intensity and crispness with fresh salmon sashimi.

The rose bandwagon is beginning to overflow. Cambria is on board with a crisp rose of Pinot Noir that inviting and refreshing and everything you could want from rose. Notes of strawberry and citrus, balancing acidity and a lingering finish that offers a note of peach.

This single-vineyard beauty is made in the full-bodied, oaky-leesy style that California wines labeled Gris usually are. With time, it has mellowed into something marvelous, a totally dry, acidic wine of unusual finesse and balance

A light and delicate Central Coast style with fresh cherry fruit and fragrant herbs. Wood spices up the finish, lending a sandalwood and smoked bacon richness. The texture is supple and soft, the delicate fruit persistent to the end. A satisfying Pinot for crispy duck.

Luscious dark raspberry fruit balanced by crisp herbs gives this wine a solidity and depth. Warm and spicy from the alcohol, it's well managed by the fruit presence, with a touch of pinot noir complexity in the finish.

Deep ruby red. Full-bodied. Highly extracted. Moderate oak. Chocolate, plums. Rich extracted palate with layered fruit through to the balanced tannins on the finish. Impressively proportioned and rich.

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Bright red. Powerful dark berry and cherry compote on the nose. Smooth, sappy and round, offering weighty black raspberry and bitter cherry flavors and slow-building smokiness. Tannins come up on the finish but are quickly consumed by the lush dark fruit qualities. This pinot is very attractive now but built to age.

Santa Barbara Dreamin'…Part Two The 2016 Pinot Noir Julia's Vineyard is a terrific entry-level offering from Cambria. Gracious, perfumed and silky, with lovely aromatic top notes and lively fruit, the 2016 has a lot to offer. Sweet red cherry, crushed flowers and earthy notes develop nicely in a wine that offers terrific quality for the money.

Santa Barbara Dreamin'…Part Two The 2016 Pinot Noir Mesa Terrace is done in a style that brings out an energetic, red-toned set of flavors. Bright floral notes add lift and perfume throughout. This is another selection, that while good, is not particularly unique or distinguished from the other wines.

Santa Barbara Dreamin'…Part Two The 2016 Pinot Noir Element emerges from hillside parcels on the property. A powerful, intense wine, the Element showcases the more powerful, earthy, gamy side of Pinot. While a good wine, I find the Element less intriguing and polished than some of the other wines in the range.

The 2015 Pinot Noir Clone 4 was the most impressive of these offerings from Cambria, and the best value too, wafting from the glass with a complex nose of spice, cocoa nib, plums, cherries and soil. On the palate, the wine is supple, plush and expansive, with velvety tannins, juicy acids, good concentration and length and a saline, savory finish.

Wines of the Week: Classic Cali Pinot Noir – Under 20, 90 Points Lots of plum, strawberry, and raspberry aromas come up front, with hints of clove, vanilla, and floral earth backing them up. A vibrant acidity lifts flavors of strawberries, dark raspberries, and pomegranates that flow into expressions of vanilla, earth, and all-spice. Lively and well suited for food, roast chicken or even duck would match up nicely.

Cambria's 2014 Pinot Noir Clone 115 is one of the more airy, weightless wines in the range. Floral notes, cranberry, sweet red cherry and mint add to the bright, lifted feel. The Clone 115 will drink nicely with minimal cellaring.

Pale to medium ruby colored with a hint of purple, the 2014 Pinot Noir Bench Break has intense red currant and red cherry notes with hints of violets, Chinese five spice and dried herbs. Medium-bodied, fine and fresh in the mouth, it has a lot of varietal expression and sense of place for this price point without sacrificing flavor, which is a dorky way of saying, it rocks! 35,000 cases were made.

The 2013 Pinot Noir Barbara's Clone 667 is a powerful, intense wine. While all of the other Cambria Pinots spend 10 months in barrel, the Barbara's Clone 667 sees 17 months in oak. Time will tell if the wine actually benefits from the longer aging regimen. For now, the 2013 is powerful and massively tannic. From time to time, the dark cherry and plum fruit emerges, but it remains to be seen if the 2013 will ever be fully expressive. This is another wine that clearly favors size over finesse.