Loring Wine Company 2012 Rosella’s Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)

Country: US / Rosella’s Vineyard
Variety: Pinot Noir California
Winery: Loring Wine Company / Santa Lucia Highlands

Rosella’s is in some respects the quintessential Santa Lucia Highlands vineyard. It always shows ripe, concentrated raspberry and licorice fruit, with brooding, earthy notes of mushrooms, as well as thick tannins and bright acidity. Loring’s 2012 is a balanced, complex wine that brings hints of blueberries. It’s beautiful now, and will age well until at least 2020.