Palmina Alisos Vineyard Pinot Grigio, Santa Barbara County, USA

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The 2007 Pinot Grigio Alisos exhibits notes of buttered apples intermixed with hints of tropical fruit and a slice of minerality in its light to medium-bodied flavors. This wine should be drunk over the next 12-16 months.Steve Clifton’s “Italian Stallion” operation in southern California is the best of its kind in the United States, and these wines seem to go from strength to strength. His excellent whites are all stainless steel fermented and really do capture much of the character that comes from the region most commonly associated with these wines, northeastern Italy.Tel. (805) 735-2030; fax (805) 735-2693

Fresh apple, pear, and orange blossom scents along with a distinctive minerality and impeccable elegance characterize the 2006 Pinot Grigio Alisos Vineyard. Palmina’s white wines stand alone as California’s most brilliant examples of stainless steel fermented and aged, crisp, Italian-inspired dry whites. What proprietors Crystal and Steve Clifton have achieved with these efforts is amazing. As good as the reds are, they are a few steps behind the overall quality of the whites. Yet I suspect, given Clifton’s talent and his meticulous approach to vineyard management and winemaking, the reds will ultimately catch up to the whites.The white wines are all crisp, dry, wonderfully aromatic, light to medium-bodied efforts with considerable personalities. They are meant to be consumed during their first 12-24 months of life, so purchasers should not hold on to them too long as virtually all of their charm comes from their ebullient aromatics and zesty, fruit-driven flavors.If you haven’t yet discovered Palmina, these are very impressive Italian-inspired wines from one of California’s most brilliant winemakers.Tel. (805) 735-2030; Fax (805) 735-2693

Nice and whistle-clean in acidity, with a sleek minerality, this wine has ripe flavors of pineapples, nectarines and crisp green apples. It tastes a little sweet because it’s so fruity. Try with southeast Asian fare.——S.H.(3/1/2006)—— 85

The 2003 Pinot Grigio Alisos Vineyard offers up citrus oil and orange aromas along with gorgeous fruit, light to medium body, wonderful crispness, and a fresh, exuberant, lively personality. It should be drunk over the next year. At present, Palmina is the only reference point for what can be achieved in California with Italian varietals. Hats off to Steve Clifton!Tel. (805) 735-9184