The Ojai Vineyard, Santa Barbara County, Apricots, Red 1997 [RARE]
You know what apricots are, those small orange fruits that taste amazing, particularly if you’ve just picked them off a 100-year-old dry farmed tree. This wine isn’t made from apricots, but the concept for this style of wine originated next to a 100-year-old apricot orchard in upper Ojai, the cute little valley that’s between here and the city of Santa Paula.
I won’t go through the whole convoluted story, but the idea for this wine came from two wines we made in 1995 and 1997 from grapes grown next to that orchard. They were full bodied wines, but had unusual freshness and acidity for California wines, in some ways they seemed closer to Italian in style. In any case with time those two wines aged beautifully, and inspired me to make a wine like that once more. Thus, Apricots was born again in 2010 and has been made ever since with the idea that we would age them for many years before releasing them for sale.
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