2020 Three Sticks Pinot Noir Price Family Estates

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 92 points

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  1/20/2024 - Teknsteel Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Medium ruby. Coke and red fruits on the nose. Add licorice on the palate. Suple, but less so than the 21. A treat still.

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  9/9/2023 - air guitar & pinot noir Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Beautiful garnet in color with a clear rim with purplish notes. Bing cherry with choke cherries on the back end. Great texture with medium weight. Great aroma and palate attack. Such a perfectly balanced wine with good integration. High quality fruit with a nice touch from the winemaker to deliver this winner. Three Sticks continues to rise!

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  3/4/2023 - air guitar & pinot noir Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I was fortunate to get a glass of this on day 2 as my lovely spouse took advantage of my participation in an evening meeting to crack this open. This has continued to develop in the bottle and is definitely a solid 93 at this juncture. Red and black fruit harmoniously connected with nice balance and integration. Not one primary characteristic, rather a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. Great bottle with plenty of road ahead.

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  10/14/2022 - Vargasjavi Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Beautiful wine. Deep bright red color. On the nose very open right after oppening the bottle. Smelled great. Had some liquorice, black pepper and red fruits such as rasberry.
  
  The wine is perfectly balanced. Not much tannin but with pressence. Strong ripe strawberries and/or rasberries. Little spice to it, pepper maybe curry too. Again, nothing dominated, just perfectly balanced.

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  9/20/2022 - Hi.its.Don.4.Wine Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Before and After
  
  Little did I know that I would find such outstanding wines for the 2020 Vintage in California, especially from up North around Sonoma. After all, California saw almost 10,000 wildfires throughout the state that year, and the Glass fire in and around the area was devastating. So much so that I was almost not going to ever review 2020 wines for fear of the damage done by those fires. Boy, was I ever wrong.
  
  I’ll get to the “Before and After” part but here is today’s wine:
  
  Three Sticks Price Family Estates Pinot Noir 2020
  
  It started when I recently reviewed the Three Sticks Gap’s Crown Chardonnay 2020. A magnificent wine and one that I would rate a solid 98 just BEFORE it was awarded a 98 Point score from another reviewer. Simultaneously, that same reviewer scored today’s wine an Outstanding score of 95 Points. It only made sense that I would want to review that wine albeit AFTER the other reviewer’s critique.
  
  Did you get the “Before and After” part? Titles mean everything, but only if my readers understand them. I thought I better point it out as sometimes I might not be totally clear.
  
  As much as I’ve talked about all of Three Sticks wines, it never ceases to amaze me how good they all are, and have been, for so long. Gushing about the 2020 Gap’s Crown Chardonnay (still available, I believe), my attention turned to one of their 2020 Pinot Noirs; what better than to start with their winery-named selection, the Price Family Estates?
  
  Bringing together grapes from all 6 of their Estate Vineyards (you get a little of all of them), all from the Sonoma Coast and all organically farmed, 15% of the grapes undergo whole cluster pressing while all the wine undergoes malolactic fermentation. The wine is then aged in 100% French Oak, 51% being new oak, for a total of 11 months.
  
  Much as I remarked about the Gap’s Crown Chard, rather than specifying individual characteristics of the wine, it was the “whole” that you needed to focus on, and so too, is this wine. Cloaked in demure dark fruit, maybe a little cherry and blueberry, with earthy undercurrents that are woven seamlessly together by a pleasant acidity and supple tannins the wine is a symphony rather than a solo performance. As with the Gap’s Chard, this wine is beautifully balanced and rivals the Grand Crus of France.
  
  There is one downside to this story; unlike the Gap’s Crown Chard that is still available, the Price Family Estates Pinot Noir for 2020 is sold out, at least at the winery. Should you see it while out shopping, I would encourage you to pick some up and see for yourself.
  
  Cheers

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