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Tensley Wines Tasting Room
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4 reviews for Tensley Wines Tasting Room
We discovered Tensley Wines while tasting at Carina Cellars Tasting room. Tensley is the winemaker for Carina, and has setup wine tasting bar inside their shop at Grand and Alamo Pintado.
The wines I tasted were each amazing. Four reds, and three of them very unique and special Syrahs. Each was so good, and unlike any other Syrahs I have had.
His wines are under $40 and well worth it.
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Tensley is one of my favorite wines. As others have noted he also makes the Carina wine sold in the same tasting room.
Tasting room is not as elegant as some of the others but the location next to the gourmet sandwich shop (Panino) is great.
They put a lot of effort into watching over the growing and harvesting of their grapes (I believe they contract for the production of certain blocks of grapes and then co manage farming) .
Do not overlook the wines from his wife.
Highly recommended
If you're not watching for it, you'll probably walk straight by Tensley and continue your life in ignorant bliss. But why not stop by and take your life one notch higher to enlightenment?
It's located on Alamo Pintado just off Grand, about 15 feet beyond Panino. It looks small on the outside, but is spacious inside with two counters at opposite ends to distribute eager Syrah tasters throughout the room.
I came here with two members, so my tastings were gratis, I cannot tell you how much a session costs. But I do know you do not get to keep the glass because the pouring chickadee had to give that piece of bad news to some crestfallen British tourists next to us.
The selection is simple: four wines consisting of a rose and three syrahs. Now, we all know that everyone is crazy for the pinot in this area. It's all pinot pinot pinot. Tensley is breaking free of this with syrahs to convert you in two sips. I happen to like wine on the sweeter side, I don't care what people say about the drier stuff being better or that oak aged is the proper way to do it. Whatev.
My top pick was the 2006 Santa Barbara County Syrah, priced at $25 or $21.25 for members. And only 200 cases produced.
I need to also mention that this was my first day out after the Gap Fire had started and I was getting cabin fever from sitting around all day, wondering if this was going to be another Painted Cave, stressing about what to pack if I was evacuated and reading edhat for fire updates every freaking 5 minutes. What a *treat* it was to come up here with a good friend, meet some nice folks and try something new. Thanks for the memories, Tensley!
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Yum... DO I need to say more? Best Syrah we tasted on a recent trip to this region. I know what you're thinking... "How many tasting rooms did you hit before Tensley?" That's normally a good question, BUT, in this case it was our first tasting room and on a day when wine tasting was not our top priority (Due to a late night with much wine and amazing food at the Ballard Inn you can see that review too:). Sooooo our palate wasn't destroyed, we were on the top of our tasting game and this place is YUM!
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