Foxen is another idiosyncratic Santa Barbara winery marching to a different beat. This small winery offers distinctive, original, and frequently outstanding wines that possess a character completely different from anything you are likely to taste from north coast viticultural regions such as Napa, Mendocino, and Sonoma. The 1991 Pinot Noir from the Santa Maria valley displays a deep ruby color, a spicy, herbal, black-cherry-scented nose, tasty, round, generous flavors, but not the complexity, definition, or mind-boggling depth of the 1991 Sanford and Benedict Vineyard. Tel. (805) 937-4251