Roar 2024 Sierra Mar Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands

ROAR makes some of the best and hardest to get new Pinot Noirs in California.  The Sierra Mar Vineyard is a rare Pinot sold out at the winery.

95 Points Vinous: "The Roar 2024 Pinot Noir Sierra Mar Vineyard is one of the standouts of the vintage. Very reticent and coy today, the 2024 is finely sketched and beautifully detailed, with all the elements in the right place. The depth of dark brambly fruit and chaparral herbs can’t be ignored. Crushed rocks, star anise, white pepper and chalky notes deepen with time. A broad, weighted mid-palate points to a wine of exquisite balance. All the 2024 needs is time to gain volume."

...A top producer in the Santa Lucia Highlands, Roar is run by Gary and Rosella Franscioni, with the wines now made by Scott Shapley as of the 2013 vintage (they were previously made by Ed Kurtzman). This is fantastic lineup of Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs.

ROAR is owned by Gary & Rosella Franscioni, who planted and own the famed Rosella's Vineyard, Gary's Vineyard and Pisoni Vineyard in California's Central Coast.