Luli Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands 2021 (Santa Lucia Highlands, California) - [WE 93]

Luli represents a partnership formed by Sara Floyd and the Pisoni Family. Sara Floyd is a Master Sommelier with many years of food and wine experience. The Pisoni Family is known for their eponymous vineyard in the Santa Lucia Highlands and for Pisoni Estate and Lucia wines. Deciding they would make a great partnership and noting the shortage of handcrafted wines at reasonable prices, they set out to create a new line of wines for this niche. To achieve this, Floyd and the Pisoni Family focus on purchasing grapes from multiple vineyards in the Santa Lucia Highlands and the greater Monterey County—California coastal regions excellent for growing cool climate grapes. THE VINTAGE: After an extremely difficult 2020 growing season and continued below average rainfall throughout Monterey County, the 2021 vintage saw clear skies and moderate temperatures which provided above average yields and near perfect quality. A particularly dry winter provided only 7” of rain to the county in the beginn