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2019 Racines, Cuvée Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful
Product: 20198049737
2019 Racines, Cuvée Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

Description

Light ruby colour. Pretty and fresh aromas include red Pinot, cherry and violet. The super-sleek, intense and delicious middle-weight flavours possess excellent punch before terminating in a youthfully austere, inviting, refreshing finish. This is exceptionally pretty, but it's not as complex as desirable, so I suggest allowing it 2 to 4 years of keeping first.

Drink from 2024 onward

Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (April 2022)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2019
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Racines Wines

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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