Winemaker Notes
A brilliant garnet color. Costalina offers a beautiful aromatic richness packed with saturated red fruit. On the palate, noble tannin and vibrant freshness frame flavors of cranberry, fresh raspberry, and Rainier cherry. A tribute to everything delicious about young coastal Pinot Noir. No need to wait long on this.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
Fermented with roughly 15% whole clusters, the 2023 Pinot Noir Costalina is a bright transparent red color and offers pure, approachable notes of wild strawberries and wild fresh herbs. It has a Grenache-like feel, with well-defined, ripe tannins and a floating feel on the finish. This is so pretty and approachable, with a lovely character.
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.