This lot is comprised of 6 bottle(s) of 2019 Racines Pinot Noir la Rinconada Vineyard - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $600 - $840 with a reserve of $360. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 10815.
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A collector since university, more than 30 years ago, this consignor was on his school’s wine tasting team in England and was fortunate to have access to the university’s cellars to taste and learn about fine wines. He developed an appreciation for age worthy wines and began to purchase and carefully store them. Later in life he became friends with winemakers in the old and new world regions and was able to purchase highly allocated wines through them. He also buys wine from agents and the LCBO and occasionally from auction and all bottles go directly to storage at Iron Gate.
The tasting note for 2019 Racines Pinot Noir la Rinconada Vineyard is from Vinous and the score is 96 - The 2019 Pinot Noir La Rinconada Vineyard is a heady, dazzling wine. The 100% whole clusters lend striking aromatic top notes that soar out of the glass. Sweet red cherry, sage, rose petal, blood orange and lavender give this beguiling, layered Pinot tons of complexity. Savory, wild and constantly changing in the glass, the Rinconada has so much to offer. This brilliant, captivating Pinot from Racines has so much to offer.
Racines is the Sta. Rita Hills project headed by Etienne de Montille, Rodolphe Péters and Justin Willett. The wines are deep, layered and, not surprisingly, super-expressive with regards to site. The Pinots in particular tend to show notable breadth from a combination of a high percentage of stems, classic winemaking and relatively long aging of around 19 months in barrel.