Winery News - Carr Vineyards and Winery

Vintage Carpinteria

June 15, 2008

Vintage Carpinteria

Carpinteria has just about everything: and enviable climate, friendly people, good restaurants and a vibrant economic core. Now, Carpinteria can proudly lay claim to Paredon Vineyard, a seven-acre parcel gracefully hugging the hills overlooking Toro Canyon. Though the vineyard is visible from Highway 101. Chances are, you’ve never noticed it. In 2000, Ryan Carr, owner of Carr Winery in Santa Barbara where Paredon wine is made, was hired to plant four acres of Syrah and three acres of Grenache near the termination of Toro Canyon Park Road…

Sipping Downtown

April 15, 2008

Wine Tasting at Santa Barbara’s Urban Wineries

Carr Winery opened on Salsipuedes in April 2007. At the shiny tasting room bar, handmade from oak barrels, Ryan Carr’s wife Jessica is pouring a tasty Cabernet Franc and Roxy, a big brown dog, is nosing for attention.
It was a major job getting this circa 1940s Quonset hut ready for wine production. Environmentally friendly fireproof insulatin now keeps the room at 58 degrees….

Appellation America

May 15, 2007

2005 Carr Pinot Noir, Clos Pepe Vineyard, Sta. Rita Hills

Bright ruby with magenta highlights, the wine has warm, soft, and inviting aromas of strawberry, cherry, blueberry, blackberry, clove, allspice, and tarragon. On the palate, it is lusciously round, full, and silky, with dark berry fruit, clove, vanilla, and light tar flavors, moderate alcohol, and rather soft acids that liven up towards the juicy, tarry, gently chewy finish. What I enjoyed the most about this wine was that while it was brilliantly varietally expressive, it felt like it was about a place, not about winemaking. – Catherine Fallis

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