Winemaker Notes
Blend: 100% Pinot Noir
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2022 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast is a savory wine with notes of ripe cherries, leather, porcini, and a darker mineral profile. It has more structure and is ripe and well-defined. It has a hearty feel but retains good freshness and has a long finish. It’s going to age well over the next 15 years.
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Wine Spectator
Enticing mulberry and boysenberry fruit is laced with hints of sassafras, menthol and briar, with a nice tug of earth on the finish.
The Sonoma Coast AVA is large in area but, not counting overlapping regions like Russian River Valley, only has a few thousand acres of grapevines—and it’s no wonder. Much of the region is rugged and not easily accessible. Its proximity to the Pacific Ocean’s fog and cool breezes limits the varieties that can be cultivated, but it proves to be an ideal environment for high quality Pinot Noir.
Since fog is a frequent fact of life here, as are heavy marine layers that sometimes bring rain, the best vineyards are wisely planted above the fog line, on picturesque ridges that capture enough sun to provide even ripening. That, with the overnight drop in temperature that reliably preserves acidity, results in fine expressions of Pinot Noir that often receive tremendous critic and consumer praise alike, and are often in high demand.