2017 Martellotto “My Way” Malbec, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara
Tasting Notes
The “My Way” Malbec is dark as night, inky, and redolent with blue fruits. Flavors of dark plum, cherry, and blackberry explode in the glass and the finish is lush with toasty oak, vanilla, and crushed flowers. The wine is named after a famous jazz standard made famous by another Italian-American, Frank Sinatra. The wine is a blend of 80% Malbec and 20% Petit Verdot and was in French oak for 10 months with 30% new oak. This wine is hedonistic in its pleasure.
Enjoy this wine while listening to Frank Sinatra perform “My Way.”
• Velvet glove, Iron Fist
• Croons like a Frank Sinatra song
• Awesome CA expression of this noble varietal
Vintage and Winemaker Notes
2017 Martellotto “My Way” Malbec, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara
A Hedonistic wine that is a pleasure to share
Malbec is the dark horse of Cahors and Argentina. Martellotto produces an outstanding expression from the hottest part of Santa Barbara County.
This new, small AVA was established in 2009. Located in the SE part of the larger Santa Ynez Valley, this is the hottest part of the valley and furthest from the ocean. Rolling hills sit atop a serpentine-laced terroir that is primarily planted to Bordeaux varietals.
“The daring, innovative spirit embodied by the region’s young producers and a vast range of first-class sites creates conditions that are ideal for the production of distinctive, pedigreed wines of the highest level. Best of all, with few exceptions, these wines remain under the radar and very fairly priced relative to global peers.” - Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media
Specifications
Vintage: 2017
Varietal Blend: 80% Malbec, 20% Petit Verdot
Appellation: Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara
Soil Sandy Loam
Farming Sustainable
Alcohol: 14%
Production 20 barrels
Aging: 10 months, 30% new French oak
Included In The Box
4-bottles:
4x 2017 Martellotto “My Way” Malbec, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara
Case:
12x 2017 Martellotto “My Way” Malbec, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara
Winery:Martellotto Winery
Winemaker: Greg Martellotto
Founded: 2005
Location: Santa Barbara County, California
Martellotto Winery
Award Winning California Wine from Santa Barbara County
Truly art in a bottle, Martellotto wines are exciting, bold, elegant and approachable. Expertly crafted and carefully blended from personally sourced grapes from all across the central coast of California. Winemaker Greg Martellotto hand selects grapes grown in designated American Viticultural Areas (AVA) such as Happy Canyon AVA, Sta. Rita Hills AVA, Santa Ynez Valley AVA, and Santa Maria Valley AVA. An active member of the Santa Barbara Vintners Association, Martellotto Winery understands the importance of being a responsible winemaker in this ever growing wine region and institutes sustainable winemaking practices and processes whenever possible. Greg Martellotto’s passion is about selling you wines that are not mass-produced, but hand-crafted, each bottle at a time. One taste and you’ll be hooked.
Expertly Crafted. Distinctly Original
The old world informs Greg’s motivation to make wines that speak of a unique vineyard in California. Greg loves wines that have a vibrant acidity combined with bright fruit and that intangible, hard to pinpoint X factor. Mass produced wines that are squeaky clean and uniform are less interesting. Starting with healthful and sustainably farmed grapes, Greg combines creative fermentation techniques with an artistic blending prior to bottling to produce wines that are distinctive and delicious. Greg’s intention is to make remarkable wines of consequence, consistency, value, and varietal expression. Several of the wines are sourced from organic vineyards and produced with native yeast fermentations. Martellotto wines are allocated, bottle numbered, vineyard designate wines and a pleasure to share. We invite you to explore each of our wines and find the ones that “speak” to you.
Available States
AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
How much more are you saving by buying a full case?
(Note: Tax & Shipping not included in savings calculations)
2017 Martellotto “My Way” Malbec - $25 = 12.81%
2017 Martellotto 2017 Malbec, happy canyon Santa Barbara - 14% alc.
Tasted over dinner Thursday and Friday night
Thursday night dinner: home made lasagna and Cesar salad
Received this bottle Thursday afternoon and opened it with dinner. Medium/deep color depth, clear deep ruby color with no sediment. Definitely young moderate nose.
Initial impression is that it’s overly oaky on the pop and pour with a big fruit nose of red fruit, mostly strawberry and raspberry. Minor alcohol in the nose.
It’s dry, medium bodied with moderate acidity, medium round tannins. It’s balance is ok, a bit too much oak but otherwise ok. Mostly red and dark fruits, plum, strawberry, tart cranberry and vanilla/oak. It’s got a decent medium length nose.
This wine is young, fresh oak with primary red fruit, it could use a bit more acid, better with food.
1/2 poured into 375ml bottle and capped.
Night 2: ribeye with roasted potatoes.
It seems to have taken on a bigger profile with more rounded fruit, the wood seems to have subsided quite a bit. Just a hint of vanilla still but not overpowering. A little bit of menthol as well. Definitely more enjoyable on night 2 and it’s probably a bottle to sit on for a couple of years.
2017 Martellotto 2017 Malbec, Happy Canyon Santa Barbara - 14% alc.
Monica and I received this bottle on Friday afternoon. Knowing that it was young, we decided to open it and let it decant for a few hours before we tried it.
We found this to be a medium bodied wine with moderate alcohol and acidity. Black cherry was the predominating flavor with hints of plum and blackberry. The oak predominates at the first taste when I opened he bottle. It settled down some after the decant, but this is a very young wine… The tannins are there and still integrating into the wine. It needs a 2-4 hour decant at the minimum or another 1-2 years in the bottle.
This morning the wine left in the bottle has definitely mellowed even more. I taste a hint of vanilla with menthol. The tannins are still there, but not as in your face as they were.
We definitely liked this wine. I think that the Casemates price is an amazing value and this wine is well worth the purchase at that price.
We appreciate the opportunity to LabRat and hope that this review has helped you make an informed decision about this wine…
86 Points, Coffee grinds, wet soils and dark fruits show on the nose of this bottling. The palate is slightly sour with berry and forest-floor moss flavors. MK 3/1/19
Yesterday I got an urgent call from WineDavid. Apparently the WCC Sonoma headquarters was completely full of wine and he had no room for this lone bottle of '17 Martellotto Malbec. I always try and help but I was nowhere near the office, so he stopped by my house and left it under my doormat.
When I got home, I popped the cork and poured a glass. This wine is a youngin’. Dark color, fruity nose (red and blue fruit) and definitely some oak showing (which surprised me considering the published 30%). It tastes young too. Dark fruit, the menthol note and some oak. It’s still coming together, but the fruit is fun, substantial and the wine is quite quaffable. After decanting it definitely came together a bit more.
Its low acidity and moderate tannins make this wine ideal for grilling up a hanger steak or a burger. Throw some blue cheese in there and it’ll be a homerun. (I drank it on it’s own after dinner watching baseball scores…)
Not an overly complex wine but a fun summertime bbq bottle methinks, and with an attractive price to boot. I like what Martellotto is doing with Happy Canyon fruit. It’s the hot spot in Santa Barbara these days, literally and figuratively.
In conclusion, I’m glad I could help WineDavid but I need to buy a bigger doormat.
so… I was planning to get home from the girlfriend’s house, have a drink or three and order two cases of this with plenty of time to spare before midnight rolled around… Alas, fate had other plans and I did not get home until shortly after midnight. (Yes, I could have ordered using my cell phone, but I was distracted by the events of life and did not.)
Anyways, @thumperchick, @winedavid49… is there any way for me to somehow buy this even tho the clock has moved on past midnight Eastern time? If so, please feel free to just click away as if you were me, charging two full cases to my CC on file and delivered to my usual address, etc. If not, I fully understand and will be sad for a while and then get over it.
2017 Martellotto “My Way” Malbec, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara
Tasting Notes
The “My Way” Malbec is dark as night, inky, and redolent with blue fruits. Flavors of dark plum, cherry, and blackberry explode in the glass and the finish is lush with toasty oak, vanilla, and crushed flowers. The wine is named after a famous jazz standard made famous by another Italian-American, Frank Sinatra. The wine is a blend of 80% Malbec and 20% Petit Verdot and was in French oak for 10 months with 30% new oak. This wine is hedonistic in its pleasure.
Enjoy this wine while listening to Frank Sinatra perform “My Way.”
• Velvet glove, Iron Fist
• Croons like a Frank Sinatra song
• Awesome CA expression of this noble varietal
Vintage and Winemaker Notes
2017 Martellotto “My Way” Malbec, Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara
A Hedonistic wine that is a pleasure to share
Malbec is the dark horse of Cahors and Argentina. Martellotto produces an outstanding expression from the hottest part of Santa Barbara County.
This new, small AVA was established in 2009. Located in the SE part of the larger Santa Ynez Valley, this is the hottest part of the valley and furthest from the ocean. Rolling hills sit atop a serpentine-laced terroir that is primarily planted to Bordeaux varietals.
“The daring, innovative spirit embodied by the region’s young producers and a vast range of first-class sites creates conditions that are ideal for the production of distinctive, pedigreed wines of the highest level. Best of all, with few exceptions, these wines remain under the radar and very fairly priced relative to global peers.” - Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media
Specifications
Included In The Box
Price Comparison
$479.88/case at Martellotto Winery
About The Winery
Winery:Martellotto Winery
Winemaker: Greg Martellotto
Founded: 2005
Location: Santa Barbara County, California
Martellotto Winery
Award Winning California Wine from Santa Barbara County
Truly art in a bottle, Martellotto wines are exciting, bold, elegant and approachable. Expertly crafted and carefully blended from personally sourced grapes from all across the central coast of California. Winemaker Greg Martellotto hand selects grapes grown in designated American Viticultural Areas (AVA) such as Happy Canyon AVA, Sta. Rita Hills AVA, Santa Ynez Valley AVA, and Santa Maria Valley AVA. An active member of the Santa Barbara Vintners Association, Martellotto Winery understands the importance of being a responsible winemaker in this ever growing wine region and institutes sustainable winemaking practices and processes whenever possible. Greg Martellotto’s passion is about selling you wines that are not mass-produced, but hand-crafted, each bottle at a time. One taste and you’ll be hooked.
Expertly Crafted. Distinctly Original
The old world informs Greg’s motivation to make wines that speak of a unique vineyard in California. Greg loves wines that have a vibrant acidity combined with bright fruit and that intangible, hard to pinpoint X factor. Mass produced wines that are squeaky clean and uniform are less interesting. Starting with healthful and sustainably farmed grapes, Greg combines creative fermentation techniques with an artistic blending prior to bottling to produce wines that are distinctive and delicious. Greg’s intention is to make remarkable wines of consequence, consistency, value, and varietal expression. Several of the wines are sourced from organic vineyards and produced with native yeast fermentations. Martellotto wines are allocated, bottle numbered, vineyard designate wines and a pleasure to share. We invite you to explore each of our wines and find the ones that “speak” to you.
Available States
AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Estimated Delivery
Friday, September 6th - Tuesday, September 10th
Martellotto “My Way” Malbec
4 bottles for $64.99 $16.25/bottle + $2/bottle shipping
Case of 12 for $169.99 $14.17/bottle + $1/bottle shipping
2017 Martellotto “My Way” Malbec
How much more are you saving by buying a full case?
(Note: Tax & Shipping not included in savings calculations)
2017 Martellotto “My Way” Malbec - $25 = 12.81%
2017 Martellotto 2017 Malbec, happy canyon Santa Barbara - 14% alc.
Tasted over dinner Thursday and Friday night
Thursday night dinner: home made lasagna and Cesar salad
Received this bottle Thursday afternoon and opened it with dinner. Medium/deep color depth, clear deep ruby color with no sediment. Definitely young moderate nose.
Initial impression is that it’s overly oaky on the pop and pour with a big fruit nose of red fruit, mostly strawberry and raspberry. Minor alcohol in the nose.
It’s dry, medium bodied with moderate acidity, medium round tannins. It’s balance is ok, a bit too much oak but otherwise ok. Mostly red and dark fruits, plum, strawberry, tart cranberry and vanilla/oak. It’s got a decent medium length nose.
This wine is young, fresh oak with primary red fruit, it could use a bit more acid, better with food.
1/2 poured into 375ml bottle and capped.
Night 2: ribeye with roasted potatoes.
It seems to have taken on a bigger profile with more rounded fruit, the wood seems to have subsided quite a bit. Just a hint of vanilla still but not overpowering. A little bit of menthol as well. Definitely more enjoyable on night 2 and it’s probably a bottle to sit on for a couple of years.
Thanks for letting me try a bottle for everyone.
I’ll post some pictures tomorrow.
@CorTot
Did you notice any oak
@CorTot Good report, as usual. Definitely sounds young.
2017 Martellotto 2017 Malbec, Happy Canyon Santa Barbara - 14% alc.
Monica and I received this bottle on Friday afternoon. Knowing that it was young, we decided to open it and let it decant for a few hours before we tried it.
We found this to be a medium bodied wine with moderate alcohol and acidity. Black cherry was the predominating flavor with hints of plum and blackberry. The oak predominates at the first taste when I opened he bottle. It settled down some after the decant, but this is a very young wine… The tannins are there and still integrating into the wine. It needs a 2-4 hour decant at the minimum or another 1-2 years in the bottle.
This morning the wine left in the bottle has definitely mellowed even more. I taste a hint of vanilla with menthol. The tannins are still there, but not as in your face as they were.
We definitely liked this wine. I think that the Casemates price is an amazing value and this wine is well worth the purchase at that price.
We appreciate the opportunity to LabRat and hope that this review has helped you make an informed decision about this wine…
@vwsmaltz at least it appears we got the same bottle…
And from Wine Enthusiast:
https://www.winemag.com/buying-guide/martellotto-2017-my-way-malbec-happy-canyon-of-santa-barbara/
86 Points, Coffee grinds, wet soils and dark fruits show on the nose of this bottling. The palate is slightly sour with berry and forest-floor moss flavors. MK 3/1/19
fwiw
@kaolis
Moss flavors huh!?
@CorTot @kaolis No mas!
Yesterday I got an urgent call from WineDavid. Apparently the WCC Sonoma headquarters was completely full of wine and he had no room for this lone bottle of '17 Martellotto Malbec. I always try and help but I was nowhere near the office, so he stopped by my house and left it under my doormat.
When I got home, I popped the cork and poured a glass. This wine is a youngin’. Dark color, fruity nose (red and blue fruit) and definitely some oak showing (which surprised me considering the published 30%). It tastes young too. Dark fruit, the menthol note and some oak. It’s still coming together, but the fruit is fun, substantial and the wine is quite quaffable. After decanting it definitely came together a bit more.
Its low acidity and moderate tannins make this wine ideal for grilling up a hanger steak or a burger. Throw some blue cheese in there and it’ll be a homerun. (I drank it on it’s own after dinner watching baseball scores…)
Not an overly complex wine but a fun summertime bbq bottle methinks, and with an attractive price to boot. I like what Martellotto is doing with Happy Canyon fruit. It’s the hot spot in Santa Barbara these days, literally and figuratively.
In conclusion, I’m glad I could help WineDavid but I need to buy a bigger doormat.
@neilfindswine Nice!
All three rats have similar impressions. That’s always very helpful!
@klezman @neilfindswine yeah I was actually surprised to see the similarities.
Update- even more quaffable on day 3!
@neilfindswine It lasted that long!?
@neilfindswine @rjquillin
Neil finds wine! Says nothing about drinking wine!
@klezman @rjquillin Well, NeilDrinksWine too, but there were a few bottles open this weekend. #winecountryproblems
/giphy definite-natural-muscle
Martellotto’s just the best…
Anyone near RI want to split a case?
Holy shit a Malbec!
so… I was planning to get home from the girlfriend’s house, have a drink or three and order two cases of this with plenty of time to spare before midnight rolled around… Alas, fate had other plans and I did not get home until shortly after midnight. (Yes, I could have ordered using my cell phone, but I was distracted by the events of life and did not.)
Anyways, @thumperchick, @winedavid49… is there any way for me to somehow buy this even tho the clock has moved on past midnight Eastern time? If so, please feel free to just click away as if you were me, charging two full cases to my CC on file and delivered to my usual address, etc. If not, I fully understand and will be sad for a while and then get over it.
Thanks either way.