Sanford, La Rinconada Pinot Noir, Santa Barbara County

Sanford · California › Santa Barbara County › United States of America

Red · Pinot Noir

Critics

90 /100

Reviews

professional

Vintages

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Community Reviews

Reviews

90.4

Avg Score

Highest

Strawberry. Some oak impression, still. Youthful, straight forward.

2014 vintage

Sour cherry Lacks layers Won’t improve any further

2014 vintage

A little lighter than usual Sanfords. Nice, but not remarkable.

2014 vintage

Was very pleasantly surprised by this. From a magnum. Great nose. Still vibrant in the mouth. Layers of pinot fruit and spice. Great balance. Acidity. Tannin and finish. Yum

2014 vintage

In a great place. Santa Rta nose and palate with resolved tannin.

2014 vintage

Over-oxidized and drank as a much older wine. Cork was mushy, and showed signs of leakage and/or high temperature variation. Drinkable but flawed.

2014 vintage

Ripe black cherry and berry start-to-finish with good depth, showing impressive energy particularly from the middle forward. Better now vs when tasted in the summer of 2018,and I think this will be even better in a few more years.

2014 vintage

Decent enough Pinot, but certainly nothing exceptional 89

2014 vintage

Corked!

2014 vintage

A very pleasant Pinot, but not as bold as other Central Coast Pinots. Fairly complex with a long finish.

2014 vintage

Sanford Wine Dinner (Washington, DC) : On the nose, waves of raspberries, red cherries, summer plums, with roses, cinnamon, sweet herbs and flowers. Really velvety on the palate, the texture is rich but lively, and the fruit (black cherry, raspberry) shows a lot of concentration, yet the freshness is always there. Complexities of pepper, minerals, violets, savory spices and wild herbs. Tangy and lively with a long time to go.

2014 vintage

Sanford Cellar Visit and Tasting (Lompoc, CA) : Popped-and-poured at Sanford. From 4 hillside blocks with different clones. Ripe black cherry and berry with fleshiness that makes it accessible now, and enough background structure to also merit cellaring for up to another decade.

2014 vintage

Sanford Cellar Visit and Tasting (Lompoc, CA) : Popped-and-poured at Sanford. Also mostly black fruit with slightly greater density and nuance vs the Rinconada. Good now, upside from here.

2014 vintage

Sanford Cellar Visit and Tasting (Lompoc, CA) : First bottle corked.

2014 vintage

Dark cherry and Chinese 5 spice with a vest velvety texture.

2014 vintage

A good wine but not quite as good as I remembered. Likely needs more time.

2014 vintage

Crimson colored and an attractive nose. Spicy and black pepper wrapped with cherry and red berries. Gentle tannins. Drinking well now. Not excited about the $70 tariff.

2014 vintage

Nose has similar profile to Bonncousi from same vineyard, earth, cherry, a little cola.. palate balanced with the nose, medium finish with the end being a little more released. A few more years and I suspect it will show even better. Very ready to serve with food today and enjoy even the current mix of flavors!

2014 vintage

This wine has layers of fruit notes from boysenberries, strawberries and blueberries, but also some herbal notes adding a freshness. The palate is well balanced with a lime acidity and a velvety tannic structure. In the finish some spice notes also appear. This is a rather complex wine with good balance between the dense fruit and the acidity and structure.

2014 vintage

Rather warm on the nose, with mainly red fruit from lingonberries and raspberries but also some dark blackberry notes appear. Dense and dark on the palate, especially compared with other Rinconadas I have tried. There are also some pepper notes. Acidity is good and with some lime notes.

2014 vintage