A Taste Of The Pacific - Santa Barbara Wine Smooth with ripe dark cherry, floral notes, tea.

A Taste Of The Pacific - Santa Barbara Wine Ripe cherry, herbs, lingering finish.

A Taste Of The Pacific - Santa Barbara Wine With both Sta. Rita Hills and Santa Maria Valley fruit, earthy with ripe blackberry and black tea.

A Taste Of The Pacific - Santa Barbara Wine With fruit from Santa Maria, Sta. Rita Hills, and Los Alamos, powerful with leather, rose petal, and black cherry.

A Taste Of The Pacific - Santa Barbara Wine Forest floor, baking spice and cranberry.

A Taste Of The Pacific - Santa Barbara Wine Citrus, salinity, and jasmine.

A Taste Of The Pacific - Santa Barbara Wine Tropical fruit, brûlée, and vanilla spice.

A Taste Of The Pacific - Santa Barbara Wine Rich peach, apricot and pineapple fruits, stony minerality, pronounced acidity.

Pretty (delicious) in Pink The 2019 Guide to PNW Rosé Wine Passionfruit and zested grapefruit with minerality and luscious mouth feel.

Red Hot? Hot and cool on new Anderson Valley Pinot Noir from Siduri A cooler customer yet, Siduri's 2017 Edmeades Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($50) has an even more limpid, raspberry red hue, and a charming scent of raspberry pastille—pardon the fancy wine argot, but Jolly Rancher just won't do—and milk chocolate. This is silky, too, but higher acidity lends it a sterner, more structured palate impression. The better option to serve with lighter summer fare off the grill, or to put in a bag and blind taste alongside a wine from Burgundy, France—where it's forecast to hit 100 degrees on Wednesday, June 26.

Red Hot? Hot and cool on new Anderson Valley Pinot Noir from Siduri Siduri's 2017 Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($40) blends fruit from three vineyards, up to 2,000 feet in elevation. This silky, light-hued Pinot shows woodsy and spicy, like split redwood. With flavors of strawberry and cranberry jam, and a hint of mint—or that Anderson Valley hallmark, pennyroyal—it's on the warmer side of cool Pinot. Crack the screw cap and sip as an aperitif.

Drink Like the Monterey ‘Five’ and Try These California Wines while Watching ‘Big Little Lies’ This rosé is as delicate as our dear fragile Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) but it still radiates with vibrant personality similar to the woman we knew before she fatally pushed Celeste's abusive last season. Aromas of pink grapefruit and guava are unmissable while the wine fleshes out with crisp notes of watermelon, strawberry and blood orange.

It needs no introduction – Vérité: La Joie is one of the world’s most magnificent red wines. Produced from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and varying proportions of Malbec, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, the 2015 is really starting to hit is stride. Its California’s ultimate gift to the oenophile, an outstandingly complex and elegant wine effortlessly merges force and finesse. It may not have quite the status of Lafite, but it is every bit the equal in quality – and even, some would say, superior. Today it remains one of California’s finest wines.

Incredibly approachable today but with enough concentration and structure to evolve beautifully in the bottle, this 100% Merlot wine is beaming with elegant red fruit aromas intermingled with hints of vanilla, dark chocolate and a touch of earth. Medium(+) body with a long, memorable finish. One of the most enjoyable Merlot’s I’ve had in a long time.

Sourced from a single block of bush vines planted in 1962 at 225m altitude on the estate, the Elder Hill 2016 Grenache is one of my favorite wines from this winery’s current release. Great balance, medium(+) body, it opens with aromas of juicy red fruit followed by floral and spice notes. It has fair amount of tannin on the finish which will soften with time but I’m loving the way this wine is drinking right now.

Named ‘The Peake‘ after the founder of Clarendon – Sir Edward John Peake, this blend of 57% Cabernet Sauvignon and 43% Shiraz is the crown jewel of Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyards and one of the most revered wines in Australia. Full-bodied with layers and layers of complexity this wine keeps on giving. Profound notes of black fruit, cedar, chocolate, herbs and spice. Theres a lot going on here. Pure elegance but with the power to evolve for years to come. A phenomenal wine that beautifully demonstrates how special the Hickinbotham Clarendon vineyards truly are.

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A few suggestions make life rosé-ier THE SPLURGES 2018 La Crema Monterey Rosé of Pinot Noir, California

This wine is sourced from a number of vineyards throughout the Sonoma Coast, using inland vineyards to give a soft plushness to the wine and southern vineyards for fruit and mineral verve. This pleasing Chard is bright and fresh with yellow apple, peach and subtle baking spice flavours. Invitingly creamy on the palate with a bright zip of mouthwatering acidity, this is a great pairing for grilled freshwater fish, turkey burgers and mango salads. 3½ stars

This light-ruby rosé comes from an appellation that is blessed by the cooling winds off the Pacific's Monterey Bay. That freshness translates to aromas of strawberries and watermelon, vanilla, cedar and tangerine, which lead to a tangy and off-dry palate with exuberant fruit and a slick, fresh finish. 4 stars.

The Vintner's Reserve label is best known for its rich and ripe Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon bottlings, which are staples on Canadian wine shelves. Made in a similar vein, here's a ripe and fleshy style of Pinot Noir with a crowd-pleasing full-body and smooth texture. A mix of spice and smoke notes add interest to the core of fruit, which reveal sweet strawberry and plummy notes. The rich and flavourful style makes it easy to appreciate. Drink now to 2022. 4 stars.

Thirty years on and Kendall-Jackson's Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay continues to be one of California's most successful brands. Made in a rich and rewarding style, this attractive Chardonnay offers appealing tropical and peachy fruit accented by smoke, toast and sweet oak notes. The rich and flavourful style is mouthfilling yet balanced, with a long, persistent finish. Drink now or over the next two years. 4 stars.