Eden Rift Pinot Noir Terraces Cienega Valley 2022
California · Cienega Valley · Pinot Noir · red
About this wine
Eden Rift has taken the Cali Pinot game by storm – and this 93 POINT estate Pinot Noir, soaring 1,500 feet above the Pacific, brings the lightning! EDEN RIFT is BACK, good people! The newest drop of their stellar TERRACES Pinot Noir, for a downright silly 67% OFF!!! Say WHAT?!?! We’ve absolutely rampaged through every Eden Rift Pinot we’ve ever featured – and for good reason! Back-to-back placements in Wine & Spirits TOP 100 Wineries (‘22 and ‘23), coveted spots in Top 100 lists for their Pinots and Chards on the regular, pedigreed winemaking, and the OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY FARMED VINEYARD IN CALIFORNIA! 1849! Some of the Golden State’s first-ever Pinot Noir plantings, too, going back to 1860! I mean…C’MON! This little phenom has quickly become a staple at all my holiday gatherings – Thanksgiving, Christmas, and even a little impromptu appearance at Orthodox Russian New Year – maybe not with the caviar, but with the Golubtsi (stuffed cabbage rolls)...this was EPIC! Just over $20 a bottle makes this one of the greatest deals in Cali-Pinot in the entire universe…and with 93 POINTS – this beauty lives up to the HYPE! Whole-cluster fermentation gives this a brooding, intensely spicy character, where cherries and crushed strawberries are met head-on with unyielding iron, terracotta clay, and this wild, spicebush aromatic profile. Pretty infusions of rose petals and chamomile tea make this still light on its feet, and the brilliant zip and mineral freshness keep this racy and hyper-charged. Medium weight, with the structure to race along for another decade, easy. Brilliant stuff, and maybe the most CALERA-esque vintage of Eden Rift yet! That’s a good thing, my people – but the prices at the winery keep climbing, as the reputation of this historic site, and ever-ascending winery, grows like wildfire. Now $68 at the winery, we called in a favor – and if a mind-blowing 67% OFF doesn’t get your heart racing…it might be time to schedule a visit with your doctor. This is a Cali-Pinot deal not to be missed, good people – so trust your webly wine merchant – and grab as much as you can! While it lasts! ** The Eden Rift Estate is 125 acres in a valley tucked just under a mountain range, a stone’s throw from the Pacific, just outside of Monterey, and right on top of the San Andreas Fault. Mt. Eden, Swan, and Calera heritage clones, as well as some Pommard (clone 4) and a smattering of Dijon clones…this is straight Pinot Shangri La! **
Wine details
- Producer
- Eden
- Vintage
- 2022
- Region
- California
- Appellation
- Cienega Valley
- Varietal
- Pinot Noir
- Blend
- 100% Pinot Noir
- Color
- red
- Winemaker
- Christian Pillsbury
- Alcohol
- 13.9
- Last Bottle price
- $21
- Retail price (estimate)
- $68
- Wine-Searcher average
- $68
- CellarTracker score
- 91 (1 reviews)
- Critic score
- 93 — James Suckling