Lot 57 2024 Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir 750ml

The CAM X Lot 57 2023 Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir is a meticulously produced, finished bottling blend sourced from a highly-regarded Pinot Noir specialist. With consistent mid-90's scores, this wine is celebrated for its supple elegance and classy presentation, valuing complexity and verve over power and extraction - this is archtypal cool-climate California Pinot Noir. This bottling sees 20-months in ~40% new French oak and typically sells tasting room and online only for $70-80/bottle. In short, this wine has fantastic bona fides. But is it any good? Yep and, better than that, it's fantastic! And, even better, it can be yours for just $16/bottle! Pinot Noir enthusiasts, it's time to back up the truck! Pale ruby in the glass. As promised the wine is intensely aromatic and pure with vibrant fruit. The lively bouquet is bright and effusive with raspberry and black cherry fruit complexed with a savory halo of black tea and clove. Supple, silky and expressive on the palate yet with great backbone and vibrant, crunchy acidity that lifts and carries juicy and well-delineated red fruits complexed with clove and nicely integrated oak in a long, pure finish. This is a beautifully balanced wine with tremendous elegance, verve and complexity for the Pinot Noir enthusiast! 100% Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands 14% alc.