Home Wine U The Buzz Wine Reviews   Review Archive   Rating System Calendar Fun Stuff About Us Feedback Key Contacts FAQ Links		Wine Tasting Notes Consilience Wines Consilience winery has been making wine since 1997, but was formally founded in 1999. A partnership of two couples, Tom and Jodi Daughters and Brett and Monica Escalera, they have been making wines "loosely focused around the typical Rhône varietals" ever since. Their philosophy is to create wine with distinct expression of regional characteristics. Consilience wines are big and bold, typically offering rich aromas and robust fruit with, distinct varietal characteristics, good structure and early approachability. The winery is not an estate winery. In this business there are two ways to make wine: grow the grapes yourself or buy them from other growers. Certainly, the latter allows for greater freedom and a broader range of wines for a winery's line up. But your wines better live up to the reputation of the vineyard. Consilience is well positioned in this respect. Winemaker Brett Escalera brings his own skills and experience from his tenure at Fess Parker Winery, where he was Director of Wine Making from 1996 to 2006. Not only is Brett's experience at Fess Parker an asset, but his connection to Fess Parker Winery grants Consilience access to quality fruit. Consilience calls their wines "High Octane Wines". This should not be misread to mean their wines are about high alcohol levels, although given the climate in the Santa Barbara County region and the density of color, aroma and flavor, it is hard to extricate higher alcohol levels from this formula. Nonetheless, the key to the power of their wines is not the alcohol but the intensity and breadth of aromas and flavors and the fact that the alcohol, although often bold, does not overpower the rest of the wine's composition. Look to Consilience for big wines with a lot of varietal characteristics, good definition, and a broad spectrum of aromas and flavors. Brett also actively employs the practice of assemblage, to bring the wine to what he feels the fermented lots of component wines dictate. 2005 Consilience Grenache Blanc, Santa Ynez Valley 92 Points 2005 Consilience Grenache Rosé, Santa Ynez Valley 89 Points 2005 Consilience Pinot Noir, Santa Barbara County 88 Points 2005 Consilience Pinot Noir, Bien Nacido Vineyard, S.M.V. 91 Points 2005 Consilience Pinot Noir, Solomon Hills Vineyard, S.M.V. 91 Points 2004 Consilience Pinot Noir, Ashley’s Vineyard 94 Points 2004 Consilience Zinfandel, Mendocino County 90 Points 2004 Consilience Cabernet Sauvignon, Camp 4 Vineyard 87 Points 2004 Consilience Grenache, Santa Barbara County 90 Points 2002 Consilience Zinfandel Port, Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma Cty. 94 Points Back to top. Search our wine reviews archive by: review date, vintage and winery.			Get the buzz: Wine reviews Great stories Interviews Wine education tools New content every month It's FREE! Click here
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