Winemaker Notes
Beautiful coastal aromas of pine and moist forest floor add nuance to notes of cherry and orange spice tea. On the palate, crisp acidity and seamless tannins from 30 months of French oak aging carry this wine to a smooth finish with hints of strawberry and rosewater.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2013 Pinot Noir Coastlands Vineyard has a pale garnet color and delicate aromas of saline, powdered sugar, tea leaves and dried strawberries and raspberries with an undercurrent of dusty earth. The light-bodied palate is surprisingly concentrated and maintains a core of sweet berry fruits with loads of perfume, gently grainy and fresh with a long, uplifted and nuanced finish.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
Exhibiting a load of darker, blacker fruits than many Sonoma Coast Pinot Noirs, the 2013 Cobb Coastland Vineyard shows up solid and well-built on the palate. The wine's blackberry flavors and firm tannins suggest that a match with a ribeye would work well. (Tasted: August 7, 2017, San Francisco, CA)
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.