Lucia Santa Lucia Highlands Estate Pinot Noir 2023 Reasonable Cellar 2024 Rich and nutty with aromas

Rich and nutty with aromas of dried fruit and cigar

and the name is a promise: these American grapes are what California's hotter

toasty earth

but this wine makes the case that flagship character doesn't require the new label

Lucia Santa Lucia Highlands Estate Pinot Noir 2023 Reasonable Cellar 2024 Rich and nutty with aromasLucia's Estate Cuvee Pinot Noir is a portrait of the Santa Lucia Highlands from the Pisoni family's own vineyards the kind of bottle that explains why this region became one of California's great Pinot addresses. Mark Pisoni blends fruit from Pisoni, Garys', Soberanes, and (new this vintage) WindRock all family owned sites along the SLH bench to build a wine with both the dark fruited intensity of the Highlands and the layered finesse of well handled