Lioco, Saveria Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains

Lioco · California › Santa Cruz Mountains › United States of America

Red · Pinot Noir
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LWIN 1354696
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90 /100
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14
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Taster #1539 · Dec 9, 2025
93/100
Textbook Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir; this has aged nicely. Sour cherry and alpine strawberry on the palate. Tobacco, underbrush and earth/mushrooms on the nose. This is ready to drink and will maybe hold for another 2-3 years for prime drinking.
2013 vintage
Taster #7872 · Oct 12, 2024
91/100
Delicate while tasty. Lovely pinot-nose with earthy, mushroomy notes now coming to the fore, red berries (raspberry, wild strawberries). Medium-bodied, quite light in the mouth with red berries, citrus and some wood. Tight, fine-grained tannins with mouth-watering finish. Very enjoyable and pretty, a few years in the cellar has made this wine more interesting. Still clearly a high altitude pinot which plays more on treble than bass.
2016 vintage
Taster #8772 · Aug 14, 2021
91/100
HER (Hollywood Bowl) : 12.9% abv. Burgundy color with some transparency. Nose some earth and red fruits. Palate some nice density of cherry fruit, a pine note, appealing lightness. the pine note gives it away as Cali pinot, but it's restrained and balanced in a nice way.
2016 vintage
Taster #3089 · Feb 28, 2020
91/100
A few years in the cellar have helped this wine along nicely. Bright red fruit (think cassis and sour cherry), nice acidity, and a helping of mushroom earthiness round this out into a very enjoyable coastal pinot.
2016 vintage
Taster #2707 · Jun 5, 2019
88/100
Clean. And a bit generic. Nothing really sticks out.
2013 vintage
Taster #5824 · Oct 23, 2018
90/100
Very nice; Good acidity; Good interest; Slightly darker character
2016 vintage
Taster #8772 · Oct 23, 2018
at tasting room. transparent ruby color. Nose strikingly floral, touch of spice, some cranberries. Palate crisp cherries with hint of plum, high acidity. One of my favorites of the flight. 92 pts
2016 vintage
Taster #7721 · Jun 19, 2018
92/100
Tranluscent, light garnet salmon color with earthy and cherry nose. Tastes are cherries , rhubarb, sassafras, red licorice, and earthy, wet stone. Light texture and delicious.
2013 vintage
Taster #3089 · Feb 14, 2018
90/100
Still quite young, so I'll expect this to evolve and with that possible score elevation. Color on the light side, aromas of violets, pomegranate, and a bit of beef jerky. Maybe some underripe notes on the nose. Palate isn't shy of acidity and, at this point, some tight tannins, which aren't too big to mellow nicely with age. A good long lingering wine. The label says pencil shavings and I tend to agree. Feel that this needs some time to …
2016 vintage
Taster #3002 · Jul 5, 2016
91/100
A really interesting nose on this. Earth, incense, cinnamon. Would have scored much lower initially. Left open for 5 plus hours and this finally came to life. Good body, acid and didn't find the stems to overpower. Would buy again for the right price. Drink now with a good decant or hold.
2013 vintage
Taster #0912 · Jan 1, 2016
88/100
New Year's Day 2013 Cali Pinot Blind Tasting : Medium translucent ruby. Big nose is exotic and complex with tons of stem character integrated with red fruits. Adrian called beets, which was spot on. On the palate this has an intense initial attack with red fruit and an elixir that is like liquified stems. Really unique and interesting. The mid-palate is more thin and the wine seems to fade. A re-taste after 9 hours and the herbal/stemmy intensity has picked …
2013 vintage
Taster #6134 · Jan 1, 2016
86/100
Some blind 2013 Northern California Pinots to ring in the new year (Rich's, Chicago, IL) : Nose: There is a stemmier quality to the nose along with a red fruited base of berries, herbs, red florals, beets, and cherries. There is a creaminess to the fruits to boot, but the herbal base over-rides it at the moment. Taste: Medium bodied with medium/high acidity and silky tannins. The notes of red fruits, herbs, berries, beets, stemmy tones, cherries, and a touch …
2013 vintage
Taster #1078 · Jan 1, 2016
85/100
Blind 2013 California Pinots (Chicago, IL) : Served blind. Cola and beets. What a weird one. Reminds a little of 06 red Burgundy. Slightly sugary on the palate, with the ripe fruit yielding a little bit of a candied quality. Fortunately this isn't super dense and extracted though, which is definitely a redeeming quality, or else I imagine this becomes a hot syrupy mess.
2013 vintage
Taster #5430 · Aug 4, 2015
92/100
The '13 Savaria is lighter in body and alcohol (12.3%) than the '12. Had the '12 recently and the '13 is drinking better. '12 has a bigger body with alot of wound-up citric acid and green whole-cluster finish but can't make up its mind if its an experimental Russian River Pinot or something else entirely. The structure of the '13 Savaria better fits the whole-cluster approach: soft strawberry and wheat on the palate then fine tannins bring in the earthy …
2013 vintage
Taster #4443 · Mar 20, 2015
86/100
Lioco and Sonoma Coast Tasting (House of Nanda - Chicago IL) : Perhaps this is too soon after release, or perhaps this wine is slightly too aspirational. Good red fruit with a nicely floral start. A slightly herbaceous character that I think might be from slightly too much (50%?) whole cluster given the level of fruit ripeness.
2013 vintage