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2019 Racines, Sanford & Benedict Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA
- Red
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful
(Drink 2022 - 2032)
- Allen Meadows
- 92/100
- Antonio Galloni
- 94/100
Product: 20198049809
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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
Alcohol % 13.5%
Maturity Ready - youthful
(2022 - 2032)
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Racines Wines
Critics reviews
Allen Meadows 92/100
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 2027
Antonio Galloni 94/100
The 2019 Pinot Noir Sanford & Benedict is a powerful, brooding wine. The high percentage of stems 75%) undoubtedly adds savoury intensity but also masks some site character. The 2019 is a gorgeous wine, but it is also austere and not an especially typical expression of this site. I hope to have a chance to taste it in a decade.
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 - 2039
About this wine
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.