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The 2023 Stolo Family Vineyards Pinot Noir is a small-production Sta. Rita Hills Pinot, we just tasted at the winery this past weekend, and it’s a serious Burgundian-style bottle at a great price. Stolo is a family-run, coastal project in a cool, wind-driven corridor that naturally preserves acidity and detail, and the winemaking is transparent and low-intervention with careful hand harvesting, gentle handling, and restrained oak. This reminds me of the Dujac style in California, and seeing that Raj is very familiar with the producer, the style tracks with that world, especially with the whole-cluster spice and lift happening here. It’s elegant and focused with red fruit and red flowers, a mineral line, and savory spice, plus real persistence that improves with air. It’s already very enjoyable, but give it a year or two, and it should add weight and complexity the way great Pinot does. Simply a lovely classically styled Pinot Noir that’s an easy multi-bottle buy, don’t miss it!