The Hilt Estate Pinot Noir Sta. Rita Hills 2018 750ML
The Hilt Estate Pinot Noir Sta. Rita Hills 2018 750ML
Pinot Noir from Sta. Rita, Santa Barbara, Central Coast, California
Notes from the Winemaker
Welcomes with a decidedly savory and wild nose with bright red berries, incense, blood orange, clove, green peppercorn and black tea. Notes of dried sage, rosemary, menthol and elderberry. Seamless and pure red fruit that rolls across the palate with pomegranate-like juiciness. One can sense the cold, windy conditions of our estate vineyards in the focused and streamlined attack and persistent yet balanced brightness on the finish. Solid Hilt structure with large quantities of impossibly fine tannins. Altogether a seductive, chalky and deeply complex Hilt Estate pinot noir.
Reviews and Accolades
93 Points/Vinous
A bright, effusive wine, the 2018 Pinot Noir ?state offers up an explosion of red berry fruit, spice and floral notes. Bright acids keep the flavors wonderfully vivid. Readers will find so much to like in this mid-weight, super-expressive Pinot from The Hilt. I loved it.
93 Points/Jeb Dunnuck
The 2018 Pinot Noir Estate is equally brilliant, offering a vivid ruby/purple hue as well as loads of raspberry and tart cherry fruits, notes of violets and spice, medium-bodied richness, silky tannins, and a great finish.