Lucia Santa Lucia Highlands Estate Pinot Noir 2023 TBO The 2024 is a blend

The 2024 is a blend of Sauvignon and Semillon farmed organically on clay-limestone

and it makes an unusually persuasive case for one of Italy's great and still-underappreciated grapes

This is the bottle that converts people who think they don't like brandy

and pink peppercorn kefir

He makes only two wines here

Lucia Santa Lucia Highlands Estate Pinot Noir 2023 TBO The 2024 is a blendLucia's Estate Cuvee Pinot Noir is a portrait of the Santa Lucia Highlands from the Pisoni family's own vineyards the kind of bottle that explains why this region became one of California's great Pinot addresses. Mark Pisoni blends fruit from Pisoni, Garys', Soberanes, and (new this vintage) WindRock all family owned sites along the SLH bench to build a wine with both the dark fruited intensity of the Highlands and the layered finesse of well handled