Loring Wine Company Rosella's Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)

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Tipo

Red

Uva

Pinot Noir

País

United States

Região

Santa Lucia Highlands · Central Coast

Denominação

Santa Lucia Highlands

Corpo

medium

Acidez

medium

Tanino

medium

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201594 pts

  Intense baked plum and black cherry aromas meet with vanilla, caramel and sagebrush on the nose of this bottling from one of the appellation's most coveted vineyards. The tangy, energetic and grippy palate offers crushed cranberry flavors, more black plum, gingerbread and exotic…

• 201492 pts

  Ripe red cherries and red currants provide the fruit scents for the savory smoked pork and sanguine raw-beef qualities that power the nose on this single-vineyard bottling. Those bloody meats mix with elderberry, ripe red plum, lavender and allspice once sipped, proving complex…

• 201393 pts

  Winemaker Brian Loring's take on this coveted vineyard shows rhubarb, pencil lead and a very clove-y cinnamon aspect on the nose. Raspberries mark the core of the palate, but the edges are speckled with strong herbs, from oregano to juniper. It offers a great mix of fruit and sp…

• 201293 pts

  Rosella's is in some respects the quintessential Santa Lucia Highlands vineyard. It always shows ripe, concentrated raspberry and licorice fruit, with brooding, earthy notes of mushrooms, as well as thick tannins and bright acidity. Loring's 2012 is a balanced, complex wine that…

• 200785 pts

  Enormously rich, this Pinot Noir has gigantic fruit flavors of blackberries, cherries, raspberries, cola, mocha, anise and pepper. Some will call it a fruit bomb because it doesn't have much structure to balance all that extravagance.

• 200687 pts

  Rich, ripe and spicy, this single-vineyard Pinot shows pie-filling fruit flavors of cherries, black raspberries and red currants. It's a lusty wine that could use a little more complexity and layers of interest.