Lucia, Pinot Noir Garys, Santa Lucia Highlands

14.4% ABV Dark red in color. Abundant fruit on the nose. Delicious!

2010 vintage

I was quite astonished at how well the fruit held up on this wine, typically SLH wines tend to be fairly short-lived, but I think Lucia, Morgan, and Pisoni are the exception of that rule. This is just a beautifully crafted wine, high quality fruit, gorgeous berries, cherry, a little bit of cola. Just a hint of some funky earthy flavors. Gorgeous, effusive nose which was quite floral and perfumed. Beautiful mouth feel, and a great finish. This is a …

2010 vintage

Subtle cherry pie nose. Similar palate. Low acidity. Some heat on the finish. Pleasant to drink but not particularly complex — nor do I think holding onto it is going to yield much improvement. A good, simple table wine.

2006 vintage

Strong fruit

2011 vintage

Hitting all of the high notes, great balance, terrific depth, benefited from giving it ample time to open up. Really nice Pinot!

2011 vintage

Good Pinot, aging well, very well done

2011 vintage

Got that kind of signature (good) Pisoni animal funk. Tobacco. Earthy cherry, nice acid. Love it

2011 vintage

See my notes 3-6-19.

2011 vintage

A clear reddish maturing color; some yellowing on the rim. Cherry, some raspberry, cinnamon, tobacco, herbs and spices. Elegant on the nose and in the mouth. Rich and intense fruit. Good balance. A long, long subdued finish. The wine seems matue now and there is no reason to hold it much longer. I'll consume the remaining bottle within the year.

2011 vintage

Beautiful Pinot Noir. Nice balance of fruit and acid.

2011 vintage

Great Pinot. Not overly concentrated like other pinots from same vineyard and alcohol content is reasonable and not to heavy. Still mildly tannic and I think the fruit will improve over the next couple years

2011 vintage

Very nice and drinking well.

2011 vintage

Red cherry Ripe flavors Almost a carbonated taste

2010 vintage

No decant.

2011 vintage

Such a lovely pinot; this is the elegance and balance that I love in well-integrated pinot noir. The fruit is lean but builds with black cherry and plum but just a little bramble in the late body. I find this wine to have nuanced garrique and underbrush that hints at nose but builds on the palette and lingers through the finish for twenty seconds. Just delicious. Had this with kangaroo loin Med rare and some cherry compote. Excellent.

2010 vintage

simple and sweet

2010 vintage

Decanted for 4 hours prior to tasting. Front palate promises lush texture with cherry / strawberry fruit, but the back palate gives rise to excessive acidity creating more rhubarb and sour cherry with additional tea flavors. Rather enjoyable until the swallow.

2011 vintage

Sipping at Sierra Mat at Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur, California. Earthy on the nose with strawberry on the palate. Not our favourite style of Pinot Noir, but exceedingly well-made.

2011 vintage

notes of dark chocolate and light oak. Very impressive wine from Pisoni's second label. Long finish, very pleasurable.

2010 vintage

This was my last bottle. A delight.

2010 vintage

Opened this Magnum for New Year's Eve. Lovely balance with blackberry and cherry fruit.

2010 vintage

Floral notes of black cherries, plum, and jasmine tea.

2006 vintage

Beautiful wine, as are all of the Santa Lucia wines. Fruit forward and perfectly balanced.

2011 vintage

A complex notes. Very deep and, rare, but, ethereal. A very deep taste on the palate. Rose peddles, dusty earth, dry berries and an exceptional silken finish. One of the best pinot noirs I have had. This is an exceptional bottle with room for years of growth.

2011 vintage

Medium ruby color. Blackberry and espresso on the nose. Medium to full-bodied with concentrated currant, blackberry and licorice. A lovely wine.

2010 vintage

Just silly good deep red pinot fruit!

2011 vintage

Cherry pie, rhubarb, cola, raspberry, pepper. A very rich, yet not overpowering Pinot. Multi-dimensional with a long finish on the palate.

2010 vintage

Expressive, deep rich and long. Still primary, could use a few more years in the bottle.

2011 vintage

This wine will be even better in 2-4 years.

2011 vintage

Pop and pour and followed over two hours. Tasted without food (unless you count rice crackers as food). Good purple color. Nice nose of crushed red berries and spice. Shows a little Pinot funk at first. This is a richer wine than I expected given the vintage. Nice combination of ripe red fruits with a crisp acidity, wound with raspberry canes. There is enough of a woodsy element to balance the richness of the fruit. Recorked and stuck in the …

2011 vintage

No decant.

2011 vintage

Wonderful, just wonderful. Nose, taste and finish. Wish I had more.

2010 vintage

This was better than expected, despite the long history of great results. I had read 2011 had issues, but this wine was gorgeous. Black cherry, raspberry, and sassafras. Found this to be pretty intense, not medium weight at all. Still with tannins that need some time to soften.

2011 vintage

No decant.

2010 vintage

Not decanted.

2010 vintage

Tasted at a gathering of friends. Six bottles of California Pinot placed in brown bags and labelled with names of some of the favorite movies. The favorite movies named (not mine, mind you),were Twister, Risky Business, Seven, The Usual Suspects, Moonstruck, and Princess Bride. The Lucia Pinot - Gary's Vineyard was Twister. Notes are from the blind tasting: Good combination of fruit and funk on the nose. Dark in color. Good mix of dark fruits and some earthy notes that …

2010 vintage

Typical dark-fruited Garys' nose. Then elegant and brambly, bringing to mind blackberries and crushed volcanic rock. Welterweight. It's a good wine but it's also clear this vintage is not my preferred style.

2011 vintage

Dark red color. Nose of toasted oak, strawberries, a bit of reduction and slight celery note. Strawberries, dark cherries, some smoke, buttressed by oak spice on the mid-palate. Not much detectable acid, yet enough to keep if from feeling flabby. Smooth mouth feel with fine grained tannin completing the oak bookend, and just a touch of heat. Consumed over seven hours, not decanted, this was definitely better on initial pop and had lost a significant amount of fruit toward the …

2010 vintage

Decanted 2 hours. Tasty Pinot !

2010 vintage

Cherry, raspberry. Better decanted even though still young.

2010 vintage

Still holding up, showing decent acidity and dark plum, with a bit of heat in the bouquet.

2006 vintage

World Of Pinot Noir Grand Tasting- 3/2; 3/2/2013-3/4/2013 (Shell Beach, CA) : Notes of tea, dried herb and ripe red fruit. Brightly rich on the palate with good balance of acid and round ripe tannins. Full finish. Very nice.

2011 vintage

Much better on the 2nd day

2010 vintage

Exactly as expected

2006 vintage

Cherry pie, baking spice, raspberries, a very long finish. This is excellent and suggests there is plenty of time for evolution in the bottle.

2010 vintage

Decanted for an hour, utilizing a funnel in a very gentle way. A garnet and crimson pool of colour. Blackberry pie, flint, adobe brick, salt, tart cherry and vanilla. A centered mid-palate of pure cotton, with well-strewn tannins. Very Burgundian in structure and cellar potential; judicious layers that enhance the balanced finish. You can't wait for the next savory sip, so much so that it is too easy to enjoy, even though there's so much structure. This is as good …

2010 vintage

At Sprout. Informal notes. Got even better after being open an hour. Excellent smooth texture. Terrific depth of bold, red fruit but not flabby.

2006 vintage

Pisoni/Lucia Tasting (Noe Valley Wine Merchants) : Dark ruby color; ripe raspberry, ripe berry nose; tasty, intense, ripe raspberry, tart cherry, baked raspberry palate; medium-plus finish 91+ points (10% whole cluster)

2010 vintage

Big coffee and vanilla flavors, a slight whiff of nail polish remover which burns the nose. Seems like a hedonistic, unbalanced Pinot.

2010 vintage

PnP. Seemed less violet than last year's. I went up a point on this as all the things I liked about it last year seemed more balanced and more expressive. The meaty earth, pine forest floor and Asian spice notes were again great. The more toned down fruit on the palate this time let the acid accent the balance to a better effect. Still this is a pretty big cali pinot, but there's a certain deftness now coming from what …

2006 vintage

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