95pts Wine Advocate

The 2019 Pinot Noir La Rinconada Vineyard, from a northwest-facing slope exposed to Pacific winds, was matured for 16 months in 27% new French oak. Pale ruby-purple, it offers alluring stony nuances that open to red and blue berries, dried citrus peel, Angostura bitters and dried flowers. The palate has a youthfully fresh, spicy character with an underpinning of broody nuances, and it finishes very long. With all that youthful energy, it feels a bit coiled, but it has the fine tannins, freshness and fruit intensity needed for 10 or more years in the cellar.

95pts Vinous

The 2019 Pinot Noir La Rinconada is a glorious wine. Perfumed, silky and wonderfully pliant, the 2019 has so much to offer. Here, too, the purity of the flavors is absolutely compelling. Blood orange, bright red berry fruit, mint, rose petal and spice linger on the impossibly long, captivating finish.

94pts Jeb Dunnuck

Sweet cherry and strawberry fruits as well as plenty of spice and floral notes define the 2019 Pinot Noir La Rinconada Vineyard, which comes from a great vineyard on the southern side of the Sta. Rita Hills. Incredibly pure and elegant on the palate, it's medium-bodied, offers a touch of smoky minerality, opens up beautifully with time in the glass, and is another impeccably made wine from this estate.

91pts Wine Spectator

A light-bodied and open-knit style, with dried rose petal and red tea notes infusing a core of bitter cherry and damson plum fruit flavors. A mineral note blossoms through the finish, adding mouthwatering cut. A pretty, charming wine that's also sneaky long.

Vineyard Notes

Planted in 1997, La Rinconada sits adjacent to the Sanford & Benedict Vineyard. The same soil and climate condition that make Sanford & Benedict an ideal spot for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay exist in the neighboring La Rinconada Vineyard.

Home to 20 vineyard blocks and 12 clones, La Rinconada is also primarily Pinot Noir, complemented by Chardonnay. The lower portion of La Rinconada is a sandy loam, which transitions to more clay loam mixed with diatomaceous earth and shale on the hills closer to Sanford & Benedict.