Clementine Carter Wines - Rhone Varietals from Santa Rita Hills

[SonjaMag]

Hello Everyone - Sonja Magdevski here from Clementine Carter Wines - introducing our wines and our offers for the big day.

Hello Everyone! This is my very first Wine Berserker Day! What an honor to be included in this lively, enthusiastic and engaging community of wine lovers! My people!

My name is Sonja Magdevski and I am winemaker/owner of Clementine Carter Wines (Formerly Casa Dumetz Wines - name transition in 2024 for our 20th winemaking anniversary).

Clementine Carter is a character in my favorite Western film called “My Darling Clementine” and Clementine Carter is a woman on a journey, looking for the love of her life and when she finds him, her love is unrequited. She still finds a reason for being and reason for staying in her new home of Tombstone, Arizona. Her story rings true for me as I experienced the same things and here I am, 22 years later making wine in the most beautiful wine country of them all, Santa Barbara. Everyone says their wine country is the best, and they are right, and so am I. There is a reason we dedicate ourselves to the landscape where we work. It connects us to something richer and deeper than words. It connects us to a home, a foundation, that we commit to. Each year we learn a little more of its secrets, expressed in a new vintage that is bottled and shared, never again to be the same or recreated. Each vintage is a stamp of beauty and creativity, art and life, unique and individual.

Our production is small - about 2,000 cases total each year. As a self-funded, sole proprietor, I am very conservative with how we grow, mindful of our sources and vineyard partners. Today we are fully dedicated to Rhone varieties in the cool climate Sta. Rita Hills AVA of Santa Barbara. We have tremendous vineyard partners who have custom planted fruit for us. People think we are crazy for growing what we are growing where we are growing - think Mourvedre on a north facing slope in the cool climate Sta. Rita Hills - though the results are unique, aromatic, lifted, energized and full of tension.

I would love to share these wines with you!

TO ORDER ANYTHING BELOW PLEASE EMAIL ME: sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

PLEASE INCLUDE NAME, ORDER NUMBER (1, 2, 3, 4), SHIPPING ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER.
I will send an invoice with payment link for you to finalize. Wines will ship out week of February 9th.
Thank you so very much!

1. CLEMENTINE CARTER RHONE 12 BOTTLE VARIETY SHOWCASE = Regular price Plus Shipping $700.
   WINE BERSERKER PRICE Plus Shipping $350 = 12 bottles of our Rhone Variety sample pack - 1 each listed below.
   All red wines are 100% whole cluster fermentation, native fermentation, 45 days on skins in fermentation bins, once per day punch down, pressed direct into their neutral barrel or concrete egg for aging 1 - 2 years. White wines are fermented in concrete egg, neutral barrel and stainless steel.

• Clementine Carter Sta. Rita Hills Grenache 2023 - neutral barrel - alc. 14%
• Clementine Carter Robert Rae Grenache 2023 Sta. Rita Hills - neutral barrel - alc. 14%
• Clementine Carter Peake Ranch Grenache 2023 Sta. Rita Hills - neutral barrel - alc. 14%
• Clementine Carter Larner Grenache 2023 Ballard Canyon - neutral barrel - alc. 14%
• Clementine Carter West End Grenache 2022 Santa Barbara - Christy & Wise vineyard, biodynamic farming - neutral barrel - alc. 14%
• Clementine Carter West End Grenache 2023 Christy & Wise - concrete egg - alc. 14%
• Clementine Carter Syrah Robert Rae 2023 Sta. Rita Hills - neutral barrel - alc. 13%
• Clementine Carter Mourvedre Sta. Rita Hills 2023 - FIRST OF ITS KIND EVER - neutral barrel - alc. 13%
• Clementine Carter Mourvedre Christy & Wise 2023 Sta. Rita Hills - concrete egg - alc. 13%
• Clementine Carter Roussanne 2024 - half Sta. Rita Hills fruit/half Zaca Mesa - alc. 13%
• Clementine Carter Grenache Blanc 2024 - Half Sta. Rita Hills / half Zaca Mesa - alc. 13%
• The Feminist Party GSM 2023 - All Sta. Rita Hills GSM Blend - first of its kind - alc. 13%

2. CLEMENTINE CARTER RHONE 6 BOTTLE VARIETY SHOWCASE = Regular price Plus Shipping $400.
   WINE BERSERKER PRICE Plus Shipping $175 = 6 bottles total of our Rhone Reds from Sta. Rita Hills - 1 each listed below.

• Clementine Carter Sta. Rita Hills Grenache 2023 - neutral barrel - alc. 14%
• Clementine Carter Robert Rae Grenache 2023 Sta. Rita Hills - neutral barrel - alc. 14%
• Clementine Carter Peake Ranch Grenache 2023 Sta. Rita Hills - neutral barrel - alc. 14%
• Clementine Carter Syrah Robert Rae 2023 Sta. Rita Hills - neutral barrel - alc. 13%
• Clementine Carter Mourvedre Sta. Rita Hills 2023 - FIRST OF ITS KIND EVER - neutral barrel - alc. 13%
• The Feminist Party GSM 2023 - All Sta. Rita Hills GSM Blend - first of its kind. - alc. 13%

3. CLEMENTINE CARTER RHONE 3 BOTTLE VARIETY SHOWCASE = Regular price plus shipping $200
   WINE BERSERKER PRICE plus shipping $100 = 3 bottles total of our Rhone Reds from Sta. Rita Hills - 1 each listed below.

• Clementine Carter Sta. Rita Hills Grenache 2023 - neutral barrel - alc. 14%
• Clementine Carter Syrah Robert Rae 2023 Sta. Rita Hills - neutral barrel - alc. 13%
• Clementine Carter Mourvedre Sta. Rita Hills 2023 - FIRST OF ITS KIND EVER - neutral barrel - alc. 13%

4. CLEMENTINE CARTER RHONE 3 BOTTLE WHITE + RED VARIETY SHOWCASE = Regular price plus shipping $200
   WINE BERSERKER PRICE plus shipping $100 = 3 bottles total of Rhone whites and red - 1 each listed below.

• Clementine Carter Grenache Blanc 2023 - alc. 13%
• Clementine Carter Roussanne 2023 - alc. 13%
• Clementine Carter Mourvedre Sta. Rita Hills 2023 - alc. 13%

An image of Robert Rae vineyard in the Sta. Rita Hills looking West toward the ocean.

Sonja Magdevski

[ToddFrench]

YESSS!!! Welcome, Sonja!! Very excited to have this powerhouse on BerserkerDay, finally! Absolute legend in the Santa Barbara area, and I know she has plenty of fans here already…let’s get more!

My daughter adores her, as well: (I showed her a screenshot of the post above, and she replied ‘Queen!!!’)

(Image from our visit last September, and note below from the trip thread)

@ToddFrench

Since we arrived early (typical for each of us, guaranteed with both of us) we had time to kill in Los Alamos before our first scheduled visit, so I looked around to see if any of the tasting rooms on the road might be Berserker-worthy. To my delight I discovered Clementine Carter was just a few hundred feet away, so I gleefully told Ella what a tiny powerhouse Sonja is, and how I have great respect for her. She asked if Sonja would be there, and I said ‘likely not’, as I had heard from other producers in the area, through the trip planning process, that harvest was at hand for many winemakers, certain varietals in certain vineyards. Well, she was there, and Ella fell in love, sold on her messaging, her beautiful prose in tasting notes, and enjoyed most of the wines. A solid start to the trip, to be sure, potentially setting her up for disappointment later

I told Ella she I would purchase a case of wine for her from this trip, which she would take home (to Fort Worth) for later enjoyment, hopefully sharing stories of each of the wines. At Clementine Carter, she selected 2 bottles of the 2023 Grenache Rosé, as that was her favorite of the flights, though The Feminist Party GSM blend was a close second.

[John_Powderly]

Email link doesn’t seem to work.

[John_Powderly]

Just emailed from my normal email app. Thanks!!

[Tony.M]

Sent an email for the 6 pack. Link didn’t work so went manual. Looking forward to the wine!

[MThomasMartin]

Email sent for case #1

[ToddFrench]

I’ve texted Sonja as well, hopefully she can fix it

[ToddFrench]

I heard back, she’s in Florida (Newbie error!!!) working, can’t get to a computer, so she said just do email as she won’t be able to get to a computer until super late…hopefully with a PILE of emails

Also, I fixed the link - it was set with a URL instead of mailto so now the link draws up an email, easy!

[D.Finch]

I’ve had these wines and they are as good as Todd says. I grew up in the area so I don’t judge SBC wines lightly, either

[Kim_Brater]

These look great! What is the shipping cost to Oregon? Thanks.

[LorriA]

Purchased! Sent email. Thanks for the opportunity to buy & enjoy!

[Steve_Wells]

Sonja’s wines are AWESOME!!! Tried them for the first time at Hospice du Rhone in Walla Walla in 2024. Definitely pick up some of these. I might have some bias towards Rhone varities myself

[SonjaMag]

Hello everyone thank you for your lovely response! Forgive my rookie mistake (sorry Todd!) I am working in Florida. I would love to extend the offers through the Monday February 2nd.

And we can customize offers, too, to your liking. I had a few requests for All Grenache or All Syrah. The answer is yes!

Thanks again Todd and the amazing Berserker team for including me. You are a wonderful community!

Sonja

[MThomasMartin]

I got my invoice, Thank you Sonja. Can’t wait to get the mixed case. Your Grenaches I have had in the past have been wonderful.

[P_a_u_l_H]

I have the pleasure of knowing Sonja and her wine. I offer a few of her bottlings on our wine list at a restaurant I operate in Santa Ynez. Sonja’s Grenache is, in my opinion, the best in Santa Barbara County and I constantly keep a bottle of her Rose of Grenache chilled at home; it’s outstanding.

[ToddFrench]

@SonjaMag

Forgive my rookie mistake (sorry Todd!) I am working in Florida.

we’ll fix it next year

[MThomasMartin]

My case of wines arrived today. Beautiful presentation on top as well. Looking forward to enjoying these. Thank you!

[SonjaMag]

Ahh Thank you so much! I love being included of such an engaged community!