Red

Bien Nacido Vineyard Pinot Noir

Santa Maria Valley · Central Coast · United States

Fact sheet

roast duck · sautéed mushrooms · braised pork · rich fish

200794 pts

Testarossa has an incredible track record with Bien Nacido Pinot Noir, and in 2007, they've produced as fine a wine as they've ever done. It's dry, crisp, silky and just wonderful in the mouth, with rewarding flavors of cherries, currants, cola, licorice, sautéed wild mushrooms,…
200692 pts

Silky, supple and easy to like, this great wine has complex flavors of cherries, currants, black raspberries, cola, anise and dark Chinese tea. Feels luscious in the mouth, but as light and gentle as it is, it's an enormously complex wine. Best now–2010.
200186 pts

Lots of flavor packed into this light-bodied, smoothly textured wine, although it's a bit one-dimensional. Flavors veer toward raspberry cola and lots of dusty, peppery spices, wrapped in silky tannins and boosted by crisp acids.