2019 Racines, La Rinconada Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

Colour Red

Sweetness Dry

Vintage 2019

Maturity Ready - youthful

Grape List Pinot Noir

Body Medium Bodied

Producer Racines Wines

Critics reviews

Antonio Galloni 96/100

The 2019 Pinot Noir La Rinconada Vineyard is a heady, dazzling wine. The 100% whole clusters lend striking aromatic top notes that soar out of the glass. Sweet red cherry, sage, rose petal, blood orange and lavender give this beguiling, layered Pinot tons of complexity. Savory, wild and constantly changing in the glass, the Rinconada has so much to offer. This brilliant, captivating Pinot from Racines has so much to offer.Racines is the Sta. Rita Hills project headed by Etienne de Montille, Rodolphe Péters and Justin Willett. The wines are deep, layered and, not surprisingly, super-expressive with regards to site. The Pinots in particular tend to show notable breadth from a combination of a high percentage of stems, classic winemaking and relatively long aging of around 19 months in barrel.Drink 2024 - 2039antonio_galloni, Vinous.com.com (October 2021)

Drink 2024 - 2039

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Oct 2021)

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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