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2018 Racines, Sanford & Benedict Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful
Matthew Luczy
95/100
Antonio Galloni
95/100
Product: 20188049809
2018 Racines, Sanford & Benedict Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

Description

This is silky, polished and stately. A blend of one block planted in 2008 as well as a portion of the original 1973 plantings, it both amplifies the style found in the Tyler bottling and supplies a greater level of nuance and character. The higher percentage of stem inclusion, new French oak and time in barrel that sums up the Racines style, all come together perfectly to show off a dark, more brooding character from this timeless, definitive vineyard.

Drink 2022 - 2045

Matthew Luczy, Decanter.com (July 2020)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2018
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Racines Wines

Critics reviews

Matthew Luczy 95/100
This is silky, polished and stately. A blend of one block planted in 2008 as well as a portion of the original 1973 plantings, it both amplifies the style found in the Tyler bottling and supplies a greater level of nuance and character. The higher percentage of stem inclusion, new French oak and time in barrel that sums up the Racines style, all come together perfectly to show off a dark, more brooding character from this timeless, definitive vineyard.Drink 2022 - 2045matthew_luczy, Decanter.com (July 2020)
Drink 2022 - 2045
Matthew Luczy, Decanter.com (Jul 2020)
Antonio Galloni 95/100
The 2018 Pinot Noir Sanford & Benedict is just stunning. Bright, translucent and exquisitely layered, the Sanford & Benedict is magical. All the elements come together in the glass. The purity of the flavors is striking, but everything about the 2018 works. Sweet red berry fruit, mint, spice, blood orange and rose petal all develop with a bit of air, but more than anything else, it is the wine's balance that is so compelling.Drink 2022 - 2033 antonio_galloni, Vinous.com.com (August 2020)
Drink 2022 - 2045
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Aug 2020)

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.
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Racines Wines

Burgundian winemakers Étienne de Montille and Brian Sieve joined with Champagne’s Rodolphe Peters to form Racines, in California’s Santa Rita Hills.
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