Some of our favorite wines

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Out of Santa Barbara, Babs Wine Company which is a partnership between Adam Lee and Santa Barbara County vineyard owner John Wagner. The brand is a throwback to a time before there was wine tourism in this area. It was all the way back in the early 1990s when Adam Lee started his Siduri brand (later sold to Jackson Family in 2015).  After the sale Lee consulted for three years for Jackson Family and then decided to make wine with Wagner who is one of the largest landowners in the Santa Rita Hills. Wines come from the famed John Sebastiano Vineyard as well as the Peake Ranch Vineyard and the Sierra Madre Vineyard. The wines are made with a good amount of whole cluster fermentation and are absolutely delicious — and downright killer values."   OWEN BARGREEN