Lucia Santa Lucia Highlands Estate Pinot Noir 2023 core-no-restrictions A benchmark bottle from a

A benchmark bottle from a true pioneer

The house style is restrained and perfumed

something like gin's pine-forward cousin

the wines differ mostly by percentage of new oak

aged for years before release

Lucia Santa Lucia Highlands Estate Pinot Noir 2023 core-no-restrictions A benchmark bottle from aLucia'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