Red · Santa Barbara County · United States
Nielson Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir
Scored from 2,070 calibrated Vivino reviewers. Cohort: Red · United States (1,156 wines).
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Is Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir a good wine?
What reviewers say
“Found the rating unfair for this wine. There is an oak presence at start both on nose and palate which is present throughout the tasting. Some velvet, rose petal and black cherry as mentioned on the bottle are defined present along the oak of course with some like raspberry.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Light aromas. Shows red cherry and raspberry fruit lifted with an herbal edge of crushed thyme. The palate is also dainty in flavors, clinging to wet slate and cement minerality more so than fruit, although touches of cranberry and hibiscus notes do arise.
From Santa Barbara County in the United States, Nielson Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir is a red. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $22.95.
The calibrated figure is built from 2,070 of its Vivino reviewers. A broader pool of 2,125 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,155 other reds from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole.
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- Red · United States · 1,156 wines
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Cohort: Red · United States
