2021 Pisoni Estate Pinot Noir

Pisoni Estate Pinot Noir is a robust California wine with flavors of black cherries, cola, and spice, promising even greater complexity in 4-5 years.

Producer

Pisoni Vineyards

Region

Santa Lucia Highlands, CA

Country

USA

Varietal

Pinot Noir

Varietal Composition

100% Pinot Noir

Specifications

2021

Vintage

2030

Drink By

ABV

Vinification

Occasional wine note

Looking for a powerful California Pinot Noir? Look no further than this Pisoni Estate, an offering emblematic of just how good Pinots from the Santa Lucia Highlands can be. Another PInot for Cabernet lovers. Black cherries, cola, spice, fantastic tannin, just fantastic. Oh, and it will be even better 4-5 years from now.

What experts say about this wine

100

Jeb Dunnuck

The 2021 Pinot Noir comes entirely from the Pisoni Vineyard in the southern portion of the Santa Lucia Highlands. It was only partially destemmed and was raised in 68% new French oak. It's a truly gorgeous effort offering serious aromatics of cassis, darker raspberries, spicy oak, graphite, and crushed stone. Incredibly pure, vibrant, and precise aromatically, it hits the palate with full-bodied richness, a stacked mid-palate, lots of building tannins, and a great finish. This concentrated, focused, age-worthy beauty needs at least 2-3 years to integrate its structure and tannins and will evolve brilliantly over the following decade. Bravo!

100

Wine Enthusiast

Dark and brooding in the glass, this always beloved bottling provides generous aromas of black cherry, blackberry pan sauce and mace on the spicy nose. The palate's smoothed-out tannins are creamy and yet still stiff enough to encase the cola, sarsaparilla and black-cherry-cream flavors.

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