2016 Testarossa Pinot Noir Sierra Madre Vineyard

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Score 91/100 · Drink 2019-2026, Erin Brooks, Wine Advocate, Sep 2019

Medium ruby, the 2016 Pinot Noir Sierra Madre Vineyard gives up baked cranberries, red and black cherries, oolong tea leaves, tar and earth with meaty touches. It’s medium-bodied, silky and concentrated in the mouth with an earthy profile, textured by firm, grainy tannins and seamless freshness and finishing long on a red berry note. 485 cases produced.

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92
92/100

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91
91/100

Jeb Dunnuck

93
93/100

Josh Raynolds

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91 points
Jeb Dunnuck
Score 91/100 · Drink 2018-2024, Jeb Dunnuck, Oct 2018

Aged 15 months in 54% new French oak, the 2016 Pinot Noir Sierra Madre Vineyard has a ripe, broad, and expressive bouquet of black raspberries, toasted spice, and dried flowers. Broad, rounded, and beautifully textured, it's one of the more approachable, supple, and textured reds in the lineup. Drink it over the coming 5-6 years.

93 points
Josh Raynolds
Score 93/100 · Drink 2022-2028, Josh Raynolds, Oct 2018

Deep, bright-hued red. A complex, highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red and dark berries, vanilla, exotic spices and rose oil, with a smoky mineral nuance emerging as the wine opens up. Juicy, focused and impressively concentrated, offering intense raspberry and cherry liqueur flavors that become livelier on the back half. Delivers a suave blend of power and finesse and finishes very long and sweet, with fine-grained tannins lending shape and closing grip.

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Red

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Dry

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