Deovlet

Pinot Noir, Santa Barbara County, 2020

Name: Pinot Noir, Santa Barbara County
Brand: Deovlet
Price: 286.73 GBP

93/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

91/100

Vinous

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2020
75cl
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£47.78
2020
6x75cl
DP
£286.73

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Fragrant, gentle cherry notes and lovely fine tannins here. The whole presentation is one of delicately handled fruit, gently extraction, easy flow but also crisp precision. Refined, cool, breezy, with long haunting length. Extremely easy to drink. This hails from some of the sandier sites in Ryan's portfolio, is aged in predominantly old oak for 12 months. Fermented with a small proportion of stems to give added aromatic complexity.

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GUARANTEED PROVENANCE

Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

93/100

Erin Brooks,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2020 Pinot Noir Santa Barbara County is layered and detailed on the nose, with wild red berries and orange peel accented by wafts of tea leaves, licorice and floral perfume. The light-bodied palate is soft and supple with restrained yet nuanced fruit and a long, spicy finish. This is dangerously easy to drink! 248 cases were made.

drinking window 2024 - 2034

date of review 12/2023

91/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2020 Pinot Noir (Santa Barbara County ) is gracious and so appealing. Crushed red berry fruit, mint, spice, dried flowers and incense all grace this layered, wonderfully expressive appellation-level Pinot from Ryan Deovlet. The 2020 is a blend from Zotovich, La Encantada and Sanford & Benedict, all top sites in the Sta. Rita Hills. Once again, the appellation Pinot here is terrific, as it so often is.

drinking window 2023 - 2030

date of review 08/2022

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.