OCEAN'S GHOST, Pinot Noir
Estate Grown, Santa Rita Hills



2004 Ocean's Ghost Pinot Noir was sold out upon release in late 2005. Bryan made a little more for the 2005 Vintage and it took two weeks to sell out. James Laube just reviewed the 2006 Ocean's Ghost Pinot Noir for Wine Spectator online and rated it 92-94 points!
"Pure, delicious blackberry and boysenberry fruit drives this wine. Rich and plush, concentrated and expansive, with a long, persistent finish."
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2006 Ocean's Ghost Pinot Noir will be previewed as a barrel sample at our Open House the weekend of April 21st 2007.

All of the soils on our ranch are the remnants of an ancient sea. From the deep sandy loams in our lower vineyards, to the shallow decomposed sandstone on Top Cream’s bench, evidence of the ocean’s touch is everywhere. At various points above our ranch, on steeper hills, in places where erosion has taken away the skin of the mountain, you can see the pitch-white outcroppings of pure diatomaceous earth. It is no coincidence that some of the world’s largest diatomaceous deposits are mined just outside of Lompoc. In digging around on our hillsides, I have not found too many arrowheads, but I have come across little gravelly deposits, the likes of which look like fractured seashells. Above Top Cream we grow Pinot Noir on a sublime south facing hillside; to the west, we grow it on a unique wind-swept mesa. These sites, like so many others in the Santa Rita Hills, are no doubt rich with diatomaceous skeletons. Which of these two sites will grow the best Pinot remains to be experienced in our delicious experiments of the next decade. While the influence of the ocean seems to be everywhere in our soils, it is with regard to these two viticultural gems that I reserve the term Ocean’s Ghost to describe their terroir.

Click Here for an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of Bryan Babcock's Vintage Note on 2004 Ocean's Ghost Pinot Noir.
Click Here for an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of Bryan Babcock's Vintage Note on 2005 Ocean's Ghost Pinot Noir.
Click Here for an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of Bryan Babcock's Vintage Note on 2006 Ocean's Ghost Pinot Noir.

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