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2018 Bien Nacido Estate, The Captain, Pinot Noir, Santa Maria Valley, California, USA

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
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Product: 20188031837
2018 Bien Nacido Estate, The Captain, Pinot Noir, Santa Maria Valley, California, USA

Description

Moving to the Pinot Noirs, the 2018 Pinot Noir has a spicy, complex bouquet of redcurrants, mulberries, autumn leaves, iodine, and underbrush. With beautiful balance, medium to full body and a great finish, it's a gorgeous Pinot Noir from this estate to enjoy over the coming 7-8 years.

Drink 2020 - 2028

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (August 2020)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2018
Alcohol % 13
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Full Bodied
Property Bien Nacido Vineyards

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.

Bien Nacido Estate

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