Red

Upper Bench Pinot Noir

Santa Lucia Highlands · Central Coast · United States

Fact sheet

grilled meats · poultry · dishes with mushrooms · aged cheeses · pasta with tomato sauces

201490 pts

There's an alluring funk to the beginning of the nose on this bottling, with sour berries, carpaccio and dried fennel combining for a slightly barnyard twist. Dusy flavors of cinnamon and red rose mesh with olive, sage, thyme and spicy red fruit.
201390 pts

Cinnamon and other brown spices meet with iron, turned earth and dried cranberry for a slightly funky and sour nose. The palate offers a plush red-cherry flavor at first, followed by an earthy pencil-lead-driven note. Tart raspberry and graphite minerality emerge in the midpalat…
201285 pts

An unripe mushroom note leaps from the aroma . Once you taste it, it's pretty rich in raspberries, red currants and oak, but that earthy, fungal flavor persists into the finish.