Roar 2024 Sierra Mar Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands

97 Points Jeb Dunnuck | 95 Points Vinous

A Stunning Single-Vineyard Pinot Noir from ROAR

The ROAR 2024 Sierra Mar Vineyard Pinot Noir comes from one of the highest-elevation vineyard sites in the Santa Lucia Highlands. Cool temperatures, mountain exposure and thin, rocky soils produce a Pinot Noir with remarkable depth, savory complexity and minerality.

This is one of ROAR’s most limited single-vineyard Pinot Noirs and a standout of the 2024 vintage.

97 Points — Jeb Dunnuck: "Dark-fruited and intensely expressive, the Roar 2024 Sierra Mar shows the vineyard’s signature combination of blue and black fruit, earthy spice, dried herbs and forest notes, with impressive tension, grip and structure."

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.”

Sierra Mar Vineyard

Sierra Mar is one of ROAR’s distinctive estate vineyards in the Santa Lucia Highlands. Its high elevation, southeast-facing exposure, cool climate and thin gravelly loam and granite soils help create a Pinot Noir that combines concentrated mountain fruit with elegance and fine minerality.

ROAR was founded by longtime growers Gary and Rosella Franscioni, with the family farming some of the Santa Lucia Highlands’ most celebrated vineyard sites. Their Pinot Noirs are made with minimal intervention and gentle handling to showcase the individual character of each vineyard.

The 2024 Sierra Mar is a particularly compelling expression: dark mountain berries, savory spice, crushed-rock minerality and impressive structure, all balanced by the freshness characteristic of the Santa Lucia Highlands.

Extremely limited production and allocated by the winery.