2016 ROAR Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands
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The base appellation 2016 Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands is a beauty and certainly competes easily with the single vineyards. Brought up in 52% new French oak, it offers a beautiful perfume of black raspberries, black cherries, mulberries, and spice. Medium to full-bodied, seamless, and silky, it’s one of the smoking values that readers should snatch up.
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Lurid ruby. Expressive aromas of raspberry, candied cherry, rose oil and spicecake. Supple and seamless on the palate, offering energetic red berry and bitter cherry flavors that deepen steadily and turn sweeter with air. The floral quality comes back steadily on a long, velvety finish that shows just a hint of fine-grained tannins.
Pale to medium ruby-purple colored, the 2016 Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands is scented of red currants and black cherries with a spicy background of cloves and cinnamon stick, plus a hint of garrigue. Medium to full-bodied, it fills the mouth with juicy red berry and baking spice flavors, marked by soft tannins and oodles of acid freshness, finishing long. 1,341 cases were made.