Big Basin Pinot Noir Ascona Vineyard 2021
Red
Santa Cruz Mountains, United States
8.0
WineSaint
Inky and brooding, with layers of blackberry, forest floor and smoky herbs that build with serious intensity. The mountain terroir shows through crushed rock minerality and firm, gripping tannins. Raw power wrapped in elegance. This needs cellaring to reach its full potential.
blackberryforest floorsmoky herbscrushed rock
Label
Big Basin
→Big Basin works with cool-climate Santa Cruz Mountains sites and reaches into the Central Coast for old-vine Rhône and Carignan fruit, producing Pinot Noir and Chardonnay alongside varieties most California producers overlook.