2020 Radian Pinot Noir
Estimated value
Buying options
Tasting notes
This prized single vineyard site in Santa Rita Hills produces tiny Pinot Noir berries packed with flavour. The nose has beautiful rose-petal perfumed aromas matched by a lovely clarity and purity to the fruit. The wine is so clean, revitalising and bursting with dark berry flavours, which sustain on the long finish. It is very pure Pinot-Noir style with good Californian ripeness while still feeling wonderfully fresh.
Critic scores
Average Score
Jeb Dunnuck
James Suckling
More reviews and scores
This shows so much spice with white pepper, cloves, sage, and dried meat on the nose. Full-bodied with depth and a very tight palate, with a super linear line of tannins and fresh acidity. The length is very, very impressive. Spice box at the end. Salt and pepper. Black cherry and sliced strawberry. Always subtle. Drink or hold.
Another awesome wine that will benefit from bottle age is the 2020 Pinot Noir Radian Vineyard. Sporting a vivid, translucent ruby hue as well as notes of black raspberries, subtle cassis, and spicy oak, it’s medium-bodied, has a rock star of a mid-palate, ripe, building tannins, and a great finish. The purity and balance here are spot on, and this warrants 2-3 years of bottle age and will cruise for a decade.
The 2020 Pinot Noir Radian opens with crazy aromatics that are immediately alluring. Bright red/purplish fruit, lavender, rose petal and sweet spice all inform this gorgeous, translucent Pinot from The Hilt. Time in the glass brings out darker tonalities of fruit and the striking inner sweetness that is such a signature of the finest Sta. Rita Hills Pinots. Blending across several parcels on the range yields a Pinot of tremendous distinction. The 2020 is special. Don't miss it.
About the producer
The Hilt is the Santa Rita Hills project owned by sports and property mogul billionaire Stan Kroenke, who also owns Screaming Eagle in Napa Valley and the Jonata estate in the California’s Ballard Canyon AVA.