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2020 Racines, Cuvée Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful (Drink 2023 - 2031)
Jancis Robinson MW
16.5/20
Clive Pursehouse
93/100
Antonio Galloni
93/100
Product: 20208049737

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2020 Racines, Cuvée Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

Description

From organic vineyards along the Santa Rosa Road corridor, this Pinot Noir from Racines is a straightforward cooler-site Pinot Noir from Sta Rita Hills. Aromas of strawberry fruit leather give way to notes of turned earth and crushed black basalt. The palate is savoury, with underlying dried fruit flavours. Montmorency cherries, garden soil, and clove evolve into notes of savoury herbs and streaks of graphite minerality.

Drink 2023 - 2031

Clive Pursehouse, Decanter.com (August 2023)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Maturity Ready - youthful (2023 - 2031)
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Racines Wines

Critics reviews

Jancis Robinson MW 16.5/20

Same vineyards as make the regular Chardonnay. One-third whole bunch. 15,000 bottles produced.

Quite deep garnet. Hint of green on the nose. Round and fruity but not sweet. Neat finish. Quite long. Gentle texture. Pretty nice. Light spice but savoury.

Drink 2022 - 2027
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (Aug 2023)
Clive Pursehouse 93/100

From organic vineyards along the Santa Rosa Road corridor, this Pinot Noir from Racines is a straightforward cooler-site Pinot Noir from Sta Rita Hills. Aromas of strawberry fruit leather give way to notes of turned earth and crushed black basalt. The palate is savoury, with underlying dried fruit flavours. Montmorency cherries, garden soil, and clove evolve into notes of savoury herbs and streaks of graphite minerality.

Drink 2023 - 2031
Clive Pursehouse, Decanter.com (Aug 2023)
Antonio Galloni 93/100

The 2020 Pinot Noir Sta. Rita Hills Cuvée is a terrific introduction to the range. Crushed red berry fruit, mint, spice, rose petal and a touch of whole cluster savoriness are all beautifully delineated. This is such a gorgeous and expressive Pinot.

Drink 2023 - 2030
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Mar 2023)

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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