Red · Santa Lucia Highlands · United States
Kosta Browne Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir
Scored from 349 calibrated Vivino reviewers. Cohort: Red · United States (1,156 wines).
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Is Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir a good wine?
Tasting profile
A fleshy, fruit-forward Pinot leading with orange peel and zest alongside red and black cherry, with hints of strawberry compote, rhubarb, and warm spice notes of allspice and nutmeg. Supple tannins frame a smooth, well-structured palate that carries a long, wonderful finish built to improve with age.
Synthesized from 349Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“This wine displays deep notes of orange peel, cherries, allspice, nutmeg and five-spice with a hint of rhubarb and strawberry compote. The finish gains momentum and carries the flavors a long way.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The Monterey Bay keeps Santa Lucia Highlands cool year-round, letting the fruit take its time to achieve perfect ripeness. In turn, the wine is complex, yet approachable with flavors of wild raspberry, fresh rhubarb, and subtle baking spice.
Kosta Browne Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir is a red from Santa Lucia Highlands, the United States. At $65.00 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band.
1,155 other reds from the United States form the cohort it is ranked inside. 349 Vivino reviewers are calibrated for this bottle, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 364 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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Cohort: Red · United States
