Bien Nacido Estate Pinot Noir 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Bien Nacido Estate Pinot Noir 2022.

Bien Nacido Estate Pinot Noir 2022
13.5% alcohol, cork, Santa Maria Valley USA.

Varietal character is on open, beautiful, display here. This is a bright, complex wine with woodsmoke, twiggy herbs, some macerated notes, smoky-spicy tannin, juicy length, orange rind and floral characters. It’s the full box and dice in some ways but then it’s also full of class, with a peppery aftertaste and mouthfeel that shows both silk and finesse. The longer I sat with this the more those sweet herb/sugared tea/orange blossom characters both shone and seduced. This is an excellent wine. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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