Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This elegant and bright Pinot delivers crystalline cherry and raspberry on the nose alongside rose petal and cinnamon, while the palate brings beautifully balanced acid and tannin, with flavors of roasted cherry, Darjeeling, cola and cocoa powder expanding through the finish. Best from 2030-2040.
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Vinous
The 2023 Pinot Noir 4 Amours is the top bottling here. Plush and resonant, the 2023 delivers tons of richness to match its decidedly bold personality. Plush contours wrap around a core of blue fruit, leather mocha, incense, cloves and licorice. Readers should expect a deep, resonant Pinot built on textural intensity. This is beautifully rendered.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2023 Domaine Della 4 Amours Pinot Noir, crafted from a meticulous selection of four exceptional barrels, captures the essence of the Sonoma Coast AVA with precision and grace. This vintage is intricate and harmonious, revealing aromas and flavors of dark berries, aromatic spices, refined oak, and a subtle hint of licorice. On the palate, it’s layered, supple, and elegantly persistent. Pair it with seared duck breast glazed in tamarind and five-spice reduction, where the wine’s silky texture and spice-driven nuances beautifully echo the dish’s savory-sweet complexity. (Tasted: April 18, 2025, San Francisco, CA)
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James Suckling
A supple, velvety, layered wine that rests softly on the palate. It is full-bodied, generous in ripe fruit and oak spice flavors and easy in texture. Relaxed tannins and mild acidity lend a broad, easy mouthfeel.
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.