About Sea Smoke Cellars
Bob Davids's Sta. Rita Hills estate where Pacific fog meets ancient soils — 100 acres of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay farmed on the estate's Sta. Rita Hi
Sea Smoke Cellars is the most critically acclaimed and allocation-coveted wine estate in the Sta.
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Sea Smoke CellarsSea Smoke Cellars is the most critically acclaimed and allocation-coveted wine estate in the Sta.
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Bob Davids establishedBob Davids established the 100-acre Refugio Road estate in 1999, planting Pinot Noir and Chardonnay on the windswept, chalk-rich diatomaceous earth soils of the Sta.
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Rita Hills' westernRita Hills' western corridor — the most Pacific Ocean-proximate commercial wine estate in Santa Barbara County, where the morning fog that gives the winery its name rolls in from the Pacific daily to cool the afternoon heat that builds through the Santa Ynez Valley.
"Bob Davids's Sta. Rita Hills estate where Pacific fog meets ancient soils — 100 acres of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay farme"
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Featured Wines
Pinot Noir
Southing Pinot Noir
Sta. Rita Hills / Sea Smoke Estate
Sea Smoke's flagship and most critically celebrated expression — Southing estate Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir from the 100-acre Pacific-cooled chalk-soil property consistently earning 96–99 points from Wine Advocate and Wine Spectator for the most structurally intense and age-worthy expression of what Sta. Rita Hills diatomaceous earth consistently produces.
Estate
★★★★☆
Pinot Noir
Ten Pinot Noir
Sta. Rita Hills / Sea Smoke Estate
Sea Smoke's second grand-cru expression — Ten estate Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir from a contrasting block selection of the 100-acre Pacific chalk-soil estate, consistently earning 93–97 points for the individual block character that the sea fog-cooled diatomaceous earth estate produces in California's greatest cool-climate red variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Pinot Noir
Botella Pinot Noir
Sta. Rita Hills / Sea Smoke Estate
Sea Smoke's most accessible and immediately approachable estate expression — Botella Pinot Noir from the 100-acre Refugio Road estate showing the estate character at a slightly earlier stage of development than the flagship Southing and Ten, the most broadly available expression in the Sea Smoke mailing list allocation program.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Chardonnay
Sta. Rita Hills / Sea Smoke Estate
Sea Smoke's estate white expression — 100-acre Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay from the Pacific-cooled chalk-soil Refugio Road property showing the mineral tension and structural depth that the same diatomaceous earth and daily sea fog that produces the flagship Pinot Noir delivers in this Burgundy variety.
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★★★★☆
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Book on Tock →Mailing List Only
Sea Smoke is not open to the public and sells exclusively through a mailing list. To join the waitlist: seasmoke.com. Wines appear at auction and the lists of California's finest restaurants. For Sta. Rita Hills estate visits, consider nearby Melville, Brewer-Clifton, or Sanford.
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