2021 Rosella's Vineyard Pinot Noir 1.5L Magnum
Santa Lucia Highlands Appellation
95 points, Antonio Galloni's Vinous
"The 2021 Pinot Noir Rosella's Vineyard is creamy, rich and enveloping. Soft, silky tannins wrap around a core of dark red/purplish fruit, blood orange and pomegranate. Spice, tangerine peel and mint hints add an exotic flair. More than anything else, the Rosella's impresses with its total sensuality and class."
94 points, International Wine Review
"Rosella’s is one of the most special vineyards of the Santa Lucia Highlands, as we noted after our visit to Rosella’s with owner Gary Franscioni while preparing our Santa Lucia Highlands report. This wine captures the essence of Rosella’s. It offers a ripe fruited nose with floral and mineral notes. On the palate, there’s a deep intensity of ripe dark red fruit accompanied by a good grip of acidity. It’s a delightful wine, youthful but delightful, with delicious layers of fruit and spice and perfectly integrated oak. Outstanding. Fermented in stainless steel with no whole clusters. Sees 11 months in 50% new French oak."
94 points, Wine Enthusiast
“Billowing aromas of rich Bing cherry and rose petals are incredibly inviting on the full nose of this single-vineyard expression. Fresh and joyous flavors of cherry compote arise on the palate, where peppery spices, grapefruit peel and just enough acidity unfurl into the long finish.”
93+ points, John Gilman
"I only know Rosella’s Vineyard from the excellent pinot produced from this source by Adam Lee under his Clarice Wines label, so I was very excited to see that Testarossa is also crafting a bottling from this fine pinot noir vineyard. The 2021 from Testarossa was made from twenty-five year-old vines, completely destemmed and raised in fifty percent new oak for eleven months prior to bottling. The bouquet is deep, precise and complex, wafting from the glass in a blend of sweet dark berries, black cherries, raw cocoa, a fine base of dark soil tones, woodsmoke, roses and a quite refined framing of new oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and nicely sappy at the core, with an excellent foundation of soil tones, fine-grained tannins, lovely focus and balance and a long, suave and complex finish. This is already quite seamless and is certainly pretty easy to drink already, but it is still a primary wine and deserves several years in the cellar to let its secondary and tertiary layers of complexity emerge. Most impressive juice. (Drink between 2032-2075)."
93 points, Wine Spectator
"This is well put together, with a solid, defined core of black cherry and red currant pâte de fruit, laced with singed anise, warm fruitcake and sweet tobacco accents. Reveals a nice sanguine thread that adds contrast through the finish. Drink now through 2027. 240 cases made."
93 points, James Suckling
"Lively red fruits of cranberries and raspberries with lavender, fresh thyme, crushed cherry tomatoes, underlying wet leaves and tree bark minerality. Medium body, refreshing acidity and velvety tannins. Savory layers that gives fascinating complexity and depth to it. Harmonious on the mid-palate and in the finish. Drink or hold."
92 points, Allen Meadows, Burghound
"A more deeply pitched nose is comprised by notes of poached plum, dark currant, exotic tea and a hint of floral character. There is fine richness and volume to the more concentrated and generously proportioned medium-bodied flavors that possess a supple mid-palate that contrasts with the dusty, punchy and moderately tightly wound finale. This could also use better depth but the development potential appears to be more than up to the task. Excellent cellaring potential."
91 points, PinotFile
“Moderate garnet color in the glass. The woodsy nose offers fruit aromas of blackberry and blueberry. A mid-weight styled wine with a darker fruit profile than is usually present in Pinot Noir from Rosella’s vineyard (typically red fruit predominates). There is a discrete richness of purple berry flavor backed by suede tannins. The wine is quite tasty and although it lacks mid-palate generosity, the wine finishes on a high note with good length.”
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