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2017 Morgan "Twelve Clones" Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir

SKU #1439200 93 points Wine Enthusiast

Outer quote mark Snappy raspberry and sweet hibiscus aromas are layered with dewy herbs on the fresh nose of this bottling. The palate is both high toned and fruity, with fresh flavors of raspberry, dried rose petal and Earl Grey tea riding on zippy acidity. (MK) Inner quote mark (10/2019)

91 points Vinous

Outer quote mark Light bright red. Lively, smoke-accented red berry, candied rose, vanilla and allspice scents display very good clarity and lift. Sweet and energetic in style, offering spice-tinged raspberry, cherry-vanilla and spicecake flavors that spread out slowly on the back half. Closes supple and sweet, with building spiciness and fine-grained tannins that add shape and subtle grip. 40% new French oak. (JR) Inner quote mark (11/2019)

91 points Wine Spectator

Outer quote mark Lithe, with juicy richness to the raspberry, dried cherry and red currant flavors. Offers crunchy minerality midpalate, with a finely textured, minerally finish. (KM) Inner quote mark (8/2019)

Allen Meadows - Burghound

Outer quote mark A perfumed nose of rose petals, red currants, spice as well as dark raspberry hints gives way to hearty and voluminous middle-weight flavors blessed with a substantial amount of dry extract that buffers a moderately firm tannic spine. This should be approachable young but repay a few years of cellaring too. Inner quote mark (4/2020)

Connoisseurs Guide

Outer quote mark Cut from markedly different cloth than Morgan's Double L Pinot, the Twelve Clones bottling is a more forthright, less tightly wound wine that shows a mildly brushy veneer to its slightly juicy and comparatively easy-to- access, cherryish fruit. It is very comfortably balanced and neither stiff nor soft on the palate, and, while it is firmed by a scant touch of barely noticeable finishing tannin that will allow it to keep for several years, it is, in the main, a rounded, ready-to-drink, mid-sized Pinot that asks for nothing in the way of additional age. *One Star* Inner quote mark (11/2019)

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2017 Morgan "Twelve Clones" Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir

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Pinot Noir

- One of France's most legendary grapes and the grape that earned Burgundy its reputation. The parent of varietals like Pinot Gris/Grigio and Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir is blue to violet to indigo in color with relatively thin skins, and it is said to have been cultivated in France for more than 2,000 years. At its best, Pinot Noir creates elegant wines that are filled with primary red fruit aromas and flavors while young, revealing with an array of secondary characteristics like earth, smoke, violet, truffle and game with age. The varietal is also known, perhaps better than any, for its ability to translate terroir, or a sense of place. While the best Pinot Noir still comes from Burgundy, it is being produced with increasing success in cooler climates around the world. In France, it is part of the trifecta of grapes that can go into Champagne, and it is also grown in Alsace, Irancy, Jura, Savoie, Lorraine and Sancerre. Outside of France it is produced under the names Pinot Nero and Blauburgunder in Italy's mountainous regions, as Spätburgunder in Germany and as Blauburgunder in Austria. In the US, Pinot Noir has found suitable growing conditions in the cooler parts of California, including Carneros, the Russian River Valley, the Anderson Valley, the Sonoma Coast, Monterey County, the Santa Lucia Highlands and Santa Barbara County, as well as in Oregon's Willamette Valley. In recent years, New Zealand has demonstrated its ability to interpret this hard-to-grow varietal, with successful bottlings coming from careful and attentive growers in Central Otago, Martinborough and Canterbury. Chile is also an up-and-coming region for Pinot Noir, creating fresh, fruit-forward, early-drinking and affordable Pinots from the coastal Casablanca Valley and the Limari Valley.

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United States

- When people consider domestic wine, they normally think about the state of California. The fine viticultural Region within California, including the Napa Valley, Sonoma, Santa Cruz Mountains, Mendocino and Santa Barbara, are capable of growing grapes of world-class quality. But there's plenty of fabulous wine coming from other states, too. Oregon, Washington and New York are also causing eyebrows (and glassware) to be raised around the world.

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California

- With the explosive growth that California's wine industry has seen the past several years, it's easy to view winemaking and grape growing in the Golden State as a recent phenomenon. And while it's true that California's viticultural history is brief compared to several European countries, this state's roots date back well over 200 years. Due to the enormous response to California wine within the United States and worldwide, there are thousands of excellent and diverse wines being produced within the state each year.

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