Jackson Estate Panorama Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022
Our estate Panorama Vineyard sits in the heart of the Santa Lucia Highlands AVA in Monterey County. Daily wind and cooling fog, make this one of the coldest wine regions in California, leading to a long growing season and extended hang time for the grapes. This maritime climate combined with well-drained loam and alluvial gravel soils produces Pinot Noir grapes with concentrated, bright, vibrant fruit flavor
Acclaim
2019 Vintage
93 points, Antonio Galloni, Vinous, April 2020
The 2018 Pinot Noir Seco Highlands is bright, floral and very, very beautiful. Crushed red berries, mint, spice and rose petal all grace this exquisite, beautifully lifted Pinot Noir from Kendall-Jackson. This is a "wow" wine.
2017 Vintage
93+ points, Erin Brooks, Robert Parker Wine Advocate, Feb 2020
The 2017 Pinot Noir Jackson Estate Seco Highlands, aged 10 months in 30% new French oak, has a pale to medium ruby color and opens with some reductive notes of struck match/gunflint. With air, it offers olive, woodsmoke, bacon fat, roasted cranberries, dried citrus peel, tree bark and amaro aromas. Medium-bodied and silky, it's intense and expressive in the mouth, with a firm frame of grainy tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long and bitters laced. This needs more time in bottle or a good decant.
Winemaking
This wine was aged a minimum of 11 months in majority French oak.
Vineyards
Our estate Panorama Vineyard sits in the heart of the Santa Lucia Highlands AVA in Monterey County.
Elevation: 400 - 600 feet above sea level
Soil: Well-drained Arroyo Seco gravelly loam, formed from granite and alluvial fan.
Climate: Cool climate with afternoon winds. Fog is usually thick in the evenings coming in daily from the Monterey Bay.
