Pisoni Santa Lucia Highlands Estate Pinot Noir 2023 051426OFFER The Bekaa Valley altitude and

The Bekaa Valley altitude and chalky clay soils give the wine remarkable freshness and finesse

the 2010 is still developing: the deep fruit is intact

Over the course of the evening

the kind of red that drinks like a terrace in August

Pisoni Santa Lucia Highlands Estate Pinot Noir 2023 051426OFFER The Bekaa Valley altitude andPisoni is one of the founding estates of the Santa Lucia Highlands Gary Pisoni stuck Pinot Noir vines in this windy, sun drenched bench above the Salinas Valley back in 1982, when the AVA didn't even exist yet. Today the family sells fruit to a who's who of California Pinot (Kosta Browne, Roar, and many more), but their own estate bottling is the benchmark expression. Mark Pisoni runs the vineyards; brother Jeff makes the wine, working in small lots