2021 Rancho La Viña Vineyard Pinot Noir
Santa Rita Hills AVA
94 points, International Wine Review
“Dark ruby. Pure scents of black raspberry and candied dark cherry on an expressive, rich bouquet. Lovely purity and focus along with dense flavors in the mouth. Firm tannins and a very long, tart cherry finish. The oak is completely integrated. From 15 year old vines (all clone 115) grown with a north orientation and matured 11 months in 53% new French oak.”
93 points, Wine Spectator
“Luscious up front, with maraschino cherry and mulberry compote notes, but this stretches out and takes on a racier feel through the finish, with light sanguine, dried anise and hibiscus accents adding range. Drink now through 2028. 192 cases made.”
92+ points, John Gilman
“The Rancho La Viña Vineyard bottling from Bill Brosseau hails from fairly young vines, at fifteen years of age, but the wine is raised in just a smidgeon over fifty percent new oak for only eleven months, which treats these younger vines with a gentle hand in the cellar. The wine was completely destemmed and comes in at a slightly riper 14.4 percent octane in 2021. It delivers a lovely, black fruity nose of black cherries, black plums, coffee bean, dark soil tones, bonfire, a touch of herb and a discreet foundation of new oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied and nicely transparent in personality, with a good core, fine soil undertow, buried tannins and a long, complex and very nicely balanced finish. There is not quite the same mid-palate amplitude here as is found in the excellent Graham Family Vineyard cuvée, but this is still a very good bottle in the making. (Drink between 2030-2065).”
92 points, James Suckling
“Aromas of ripe strawberries and raspberries with orange blossom, red spices and potpourri. Medium-bodied with vivid acidity, giving it tension and length. Juicy and fresh with polished tannins and a floral finish. Drink or hold.”
92 points, Wine Enthusiast
“Baked strawberry and cherry pick up wood-spice aromas on the nose of this bottling, which really opens up with a bit of air. The palate is rich with muddled berry, plum and oak-spice flavors, as mineral elements of graphite and iodine emerge on the finish.”
91 points, Allen Meadows, Burghound
"This is aromatically similar to the Graham Family cuvée as it is also quite spicy and pretty. There is a bit more volume to the equally sleek and nicely refined middleweight flavors that conclude in a dusty bitter pit fruit-inflected finish. This is already solidly complex and a few years of keeping should only add to the depth. Lovely."
90 points, PinotFile
“Dark garnet color in the glass. Exuberant aromas of black cherry, black raspberry, cola, and oak-driven spice and smoke. On the palate, the flavors echo the aromas. This broad-shouldered wine acquires interest over time in the glass as it sheds some of its sumptuous oak. The finish is modestly long with a sweet and sour stamp.”
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