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2019 Racines, Sanford & Benedict Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful
Product: 20198049809
2019 Racines, Sanford & Benedict Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

Description

This is the most floral-suffused wine of the three pinots with more spice wisps on the elegant, cool, airy essence of red berry fruit aromas. There is fine volume to the intense and solidly concentrated flavours that are shaped by relatively fine-grained tannins on the compact, youthfully austere and dusty finale. This sneaky long effort is noticeably backward and a wine that is definitely going to require at least some patience. Lovely and worth considering.

Drink from 2027 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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