Nagy Wines Santa Maria Valley Garey Ranch Vineyard Pinot Noir 2010: Deeper, darker, and more cherry-leaning than most of the racier, strawberry-inflected wines from Santa Maria, this wine by Clarissa Nagy delivers the complex crushed brown spice notes that reliably come from Garey Ranch’s tiny grapes in the valley’s northeastern corner, as well as more gripping, meatier flavors than your typical boutique-level Central Coast pinot. Nagy is also the winemaker for Riverbench, which just opened a tasting room in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone, so if you can’t find this rare bottling (Vino Divino has offered her wines in the past), you can try her other excellent handiwork on Santa Maria pinots and chardonnays today. See NagyWines.com and Riverbench.com.

Matt Kettmann

Senior Editor

Matt Kettmann started at The Independent in 1999, working as a proofreader, news reporter, and pop culture editor before becoming senior editor in 2006. In addition to covering Santa Barbara affairs for 15-plus years and overseeing Independent.com, the San Jose native and UCSB grad has tracked down stories in such places as Bolivia, Belize, Costa Rica, Uganda, Thailand, Hong Kong, India, France, Spain, Mexico, and the wartorn, officially unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He is also a contributing editor for Wine Enthusiast, reviewing the wines and covering the culture of the Central Coast, and has written about a variety of topics for the New York Times, TIME Magazine, Smithsonian, Wine Spectator, Sunset, and other publications large and small. For more of his work, you can also see MattKettmann.com.

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