Rose of Pinot Noir

Fact sheet

Type

Red

Grape

Pinot Noir

Country

United States

Region

Monterey · Central Coast

Appellation

Monterey

Body

light

Acidity

medium

Sweetness

dry

Rated vintages

• 201685 pts

  This wine's pink color edges ever so slightly toward brown, and offers aromas of orange juice and pink rose petals. It's a tad flat on the palate, suggesting sour orange and lemon rinds, a touch of maraschino cherry and a slight baking-soda minerality.

• 201586 pts

  A rusty minerality shows on the nose of this bottling alongside dried cranberry, hibiscus and an earthy streak of crushed slate. It's lightly bodied on the sip, with somewhat sweet cranberry and pomegranate-fruit flavors, lifted by clove dust.

• 201489 pts

  Tart red cherries and plum skins are spiced by nutmeg, pepper and turned earth on this widely available bottling that packs decent Pinot punch for the price. The mix of ripe and tart plays hard on the palate, where red cherry pie toys with cranberry skins, and a dollop of vanill…

• 200992 pts

  A rich, vital, complex Pinot Noir. Completely dry, with a savory scour of acidity, it treads a fine line between ripe cherries and pomegranates and earthier notes of mushrooms and dried herbs. Lots of terroir in this fine wine, which will take a few years of bottle age.

• 200884 pts

  Marked by fresh fruity acids and primary tastes of raspberries, cherries and cola, this is a pleasantly dry Pinot Noir. It's an everyday type that shows the silkiness of the variety.

• 200790 pts

  A lovely Pinot, polished and supple. Ready to drink now for its crisp acidity, lush coat of smoky oak and, above all, exotically complex flavors of cherry pie filling, black raspberry tart, cola, red plum and mocha. Should evolve through 2012.