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

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful (Drink 2022 - 2032)
Allen Meadows
89/100
Antonio Galloni
90/100
Product: 20198049737
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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
Alcohol % 13.5%
Maturity Ready - youthful (2022 - 2032)
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Racines Wines

Critics reviews

Allen Meadows 89/100

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 (Apr 2022)
Antonio Galloni 90/100

The 2019 Pinot Noir Sta. Rita Hills is an attractive, ethereal wine. Sweet dried cherry, mint, tobacco and sage are some of the aromas and flavours that open in the glass. I would give this a few years in bottle to soften. This is an especially savoury style of Pinot with plenty of aromatic presence and the fruit pushed into the background—the Sta. Rita Hills cuvée is a blend of fruit from Domaine de la Côte and La Encantada.

Drink 2022 - 2031
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Jun 2021)

About this wine

Sta. Rita Hills

Sta. Rita Hills

Sta. Rita Hills is one of California’s most compelling cool-climate regions, celebrated for its Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, which are renowned for remarkable precision and poise. Nestled between the Purisima and Santa Rosa Hills, its east–west valleys funnel ocean breezes and fog inland, creating a long, temperate growing season that shapes wines of freshness, structure and unmistakable character.

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