Williams Selyem Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2019

Professional Ratings

• 95 Wine Enthusiast

  This is an outstanding showcase for the vintage, showing depth and concentration mixed with elegance. Dried herb, black tea, turned earth and crushed rock accent a medium-bodied core of dark cherry, blueberry and currant, with rounded tannins.

• 94 Jeb Dunnuck

  Lots of ripe cherries and mulberries as well as an almost blue fruit quality all emerge from the 2019 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast. Medium-bodied and super elegant, this seamless Pinot Noir shines on all accounts. It has a kiss of background oak to integrate, yet the balance is spot on, its tannins are ripe and polished, and it's just a gorgeous appellation Pinot Noir that readers should snatch up.

• 92 Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
  COMMENTARY: The 2019 William Selyem Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir is a beautiful and complete wine. TASTING NOTES: This wine shines with its aromas of ripe, red, and black fruit, as well as an accent of oak. Pair it with a grilled, well-marbled ribeye. (Tasted: January 15, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
• 92 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

  Medium ruby, the 2019 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast offers spicy black fruits on the nose with savory and earthy undertones. The palate is bright and spicy with a finely grained texture and long, uplifted finish.

• 92 Wine Spectator
  Shows an elegant spiciness and structured dried red cherry and berry flavors that are backed by rich acidity. Burnished finish has notes of underbrush that linger with svelte savoriness. Drink now through 2025.
• 90 Connoisseurs' Guide

  Very much following the lead of Williams Selyem’s 2018 Sonoma Coast bottling, this is again a very fruit forward offering that sports the lovely, very supple, near velvety palatal feel of a well-crafted Pinot Noir. If picking one of the winery’s current lot for drinking in the relative near term, this is the one that gets our vote, albeit not about to fade away any time soon. It is, in short, very delectable stuff.