E Clark

9.0

Xmas gift from chad and Katie. Needs time to open up and then much better experience — 7 years ago

Daragh Hoey

9.2

Roars in with maple, then goes silent for a moment, but then grips you with a rum-like finish. Chad Stock is making me happy. — 8 years ago

Patrick Roddy

9.3

Young but good. This wine will be wonderful in a couple years. Powerful on the nose, deep purple in color, and moderate to full body. Hints of chocolate, tobacco, and deep woods berries with a slightly astringent finish. — 8 years ago

Jonathan Patch

10

White cap Chard! @Chad Hinds sporting the Poulsard edition in the background. — 9 years ago

Tripp Owings

10

Fantastic Pinot. One of the best I have ever had. Had it with chad and Stacy in Denver. — 9 years ago

Deb Y

9.0

Really yummy. Smooth — 9 years ago

David Quammen

10

Panorama, Canada - Konrad, Chad, Frank and Shamps 12-16-14 — 9 years ago

Chasing Jen

9.1

Cheers to #GrenacheDay & thx to Xandria 4 bringing this Chad Melville Samsara 2010 Ballard Canyon, Larner vineyard wine to celebrate! Velvet warmth! — 10 years ago

Vinny Eng

9.8

Salinity! Corsica! Sciacarellu singing polyphonic songs with merry making wine to celebrate @tartinebaker Chad Robertson and the release of his new book TARTINE BOOK NO. 3. — 11 years ago

Deborah Heath

9.5

Chad Stock's #4, Sauvignon Blanc 43 days on skins. Beautiful aromatics~ apricot, elderflower, hint of chalk — 11 years ago

Daragh Hoey

9.3

Another triumph by Chad Stock. Dimethyl sulfide is the almost deliberate flaw, apparently. But damn it's delicious. Burned toast and red fruit gives way to an acidic, metallic, at times inorganic full stop. — 8 years ago

Virginia Thomas

9.4

Drank w Ned, Chad on Friday night watching Chefs table — 8 years ago

Kimberly Anderson

9.3

Lovely floral violet notes on the nose. Lemon grass and raspberry mid palate. Chad smells sweet alfalfa. Changes every time we drink. Wow — 8 years ago

with Chad

Brett Pallesen

9.3

Serious Ca Chenin. Nice job chad. — 8 years ago

Sturgy

9.3

From chad 2003. Happy done with planting! — 9 years ago

Jonathan Patch

9.4

Dude. @Chad Hinds — 9 years ago

with D.C.

Edward Zimmerman

9.6

Chad melville's #PinotNoir is almost as good as his son's label art @samsarawine — 9 years ago

natalie kleis

9.1

I liked it and Chad did too — 9 years ago

Deborah Heath

9.5

Chad Stock´s chardonnay testing his conviction that Dijon clones aren't best suited to the Willamette Valley AVA terroir. Whatever your view, this is a beautiful wine. — 10 years ago

Sean Lynch

9.7

Chad, you devil. — 11 years ago

Daragh Hoey

9.0

Not quite my usual speed for Chardonnay, but another super Chad Stock concoction. Semolina flavors drive it, and the wood from the barrique is clear. — 8 years ago

Bobbie Dougherty

9.6

2003 Chad, excellent!! — 8 years ago

Charine Tan

9.0

Backstory: Tasted this at the winery and loved it so much that we bought a bottle to take along with us to Mexico. Chad Melville is the owner and winemaker at Samsara. He's also the chief winegrower at Melville Winery.

Winemaking Process: Single vineyard wine with grapes harvested from the Cargasacchi vineyard, which is in the middle aka sweet spot of Santa Rital Hills. 75% whole cluster fermentation with native yeast. 50% in new French oak barrels for 22 months, followed by 12-month ageing in the bottle. Unfiltered.

Tasting Notes: Colour is ruby red with some clarity, no sediment. On the nose, it has blue fruit, cherry, cassis, cigar, asphalt, lambskin leather and pronounced earthy notes. On the palate, it is medium-bodied with full, mouth-filling texture. Red fruit notes appear first, and then the taste turns into an earthy, allspice notes, and finishes off with something so bright and refreshing that reminds us of orange peel. The tannins are soft. End palate is long, around 10 seconds, marked by minerality and cherry. I love this wine because unlike many Pinot Noir from Santa Barbara, it isn't over extracted and not too sweet (like fruit pastille). There's a fleeting burst of sweet red fruit flavour on the mid palate and the flavour quickly transits to earthy notes and tannins. It's a more earthy Pinot Noir but yet still elegant and ready to be consumed. At $55, I think it's well worth the price. — 8 years ago

Matt Bucklin

9.2

Thanks Chad — 9 years ago

Karen Harding

9.5

Chad you would like this !! — 9 years ago

with Vincie

Matt Mitchell

9.5

Chad Melville knocks it out the park with this luscious Syrah. Dark fruit, super soft mouthfeel, smooth finish. Like butter. 14.8% I'm gonna buy a case. — 9 years ago

Deanna Barrett

9.5

Wonderful red, chad brought for thanksgiving. — 9 years ago

Christina Turley

Sales & Marketing Turley Wine Cellars

9.4

Avec Msr Brewer, Chad Melville et al. Excellent pondering and philosophizing. — 10 years ago

Caleb Warren

9.0

Thanksgiving dinner with Wallace's and chad. Very light in appearance and flavor. Very plumby. — 10 years ago

John-Paul Henaff

Sales WineWise/The Vienna Wine Company

9.6

I didn't drink this but can't resist to post this label. — 11 years ago