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2016 Sanguis Misfit

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May 25, 2025 - $40

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RATINGS

95+ The Wine Advocate

...scents of roasted coffee bean, garrigue, olive, prosciutto and warm red cherries...with black cherry jam, warm blackberries, crushed blueberries, boysenberry and graphite. Medium to full-bodied, silky and wonderful savory, fruit and spice layers blossom in the mouth, framed by ripe, plushly textured tannins and juicy acidity, finishing very long and very layered. Stunning.

95Vinous / IWC

Bright aromatics from the Franc complement a range of dark fruit flavors in a racy, potent wine that hits so many high notes...vibrant, alluring and flat-out delicious.

93Wine Enthusiast

Juicy aromas of cherry cola, charred wood and roasted meat show on the nose... Cocoa, cola and black-plum flavors are lifted by white pepper and savory soy on the palate.

90Jeb Dunnuck

...offers a big, chewy style that carries lots of black fruits, chocolate, ground pepper, rare meat, melted licorice, and violets...packs serious amounts of fruit while staying balanced and nicely textured. It has plenty of chewy tannins...

PRODUCER

Sanguis

Sanguis is an urban winery in Santa Barbara. It was founded by Matthias Pippig and his wife Jamie Kinser, and the couple source grapes from the Santa Rita Hills, Alisos Canyon and the hills east of Santa Maria. A native of Germany who is a food-industry marketing consultant when he’s not making wine, Pippig has been compared to his friend and one-time restaurant colleague Manfred Krankl, the dynamo behind Sine Qua Non. Like Krankl, Pippig creates blends with exuberant names and makes his own labels. He also decries the current “non-interventionist” trend in winemaking, having told more than one interviewer that the winemaker’s job is precisely about creating fine wines through closely monitored winemaking. Wine Advocate calls Sanguis wines “impeccably made…In addition, they also age gracefully. While the bulk of the lineup is red, don’t miss his whites! They’re rich and full-bodied, but unique, awesomely pure and focused.”

REGION

United States, California, Central Coast

Central Coast AVA is a huge wine producing area that extends from Santa Barbara County in the south to San Francisco in the north. With more than 100,000 vineyard acres, it includes parts of six counties near the Pacific Ocean. Nearly 20 smaller AVAs lie within the Central Coast AVA. Central Coast earned appellation status in 1985. Included in the appellation are parts of the counties of Contra Costa, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz. Nearly every grape varietal grown in California is grown somewhere in the Central Coast AVA, though Chardonnay accounts for nearly 50% of the entire wine grape crop.

VINTAGE

2016 Sanguis Misfit