Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2018 Pinot Noir Terra De Promissio from the Sonoma Coast has a wonderful bouquet of pretty red (and some black) fruits as well as lots of white flower, spice, peppery herbs, and subtle vanilla-laced aromas and flavors. Medium to full-bodied, nicely textured, and elegant on the palate, it has plenty of Sonoma Coast elegance and prettiness while still showing the richer, riper style favored at this address. It's going to keep for 7-8 years nicely.
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James Suckling
Red-cherry, blueberry, dried-herb, slate, vanilla and nutmeg aromas. Dried grapefruit zest, too. It’s medium-to full-bodied with sleek, well integrated tannins and crisp acidity. Elegant and refined with a more mineral finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2018 Pinot Noir Terra de Promissio has a nose of cranberry sauce and cherry jam accented by Earl Grey tea, cola, woodsmoke, amaro and underbrush. The medium-bodied palate is packed with nuanced fruits. It has a fine, grainy frame and is super fresh, finishing long and flavorful. This will benefit from another couple of years in bottle. Rating: 93+
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Wine Enthusiast
Rose-petal aromas build on a concentrated layering of strawberry, dense earth and warm spice in this coastal wine. Rogue edginess drives the mid palate, girded by a foundation of firm tannin and supportive oak.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Domaine Della Terra de Promissio Pinot Noir displays an attractive freshness to it. TASTING NOTES: This wine is alive and bright with aromas and flavors of red fruit and savory spices. Pair it with five-spice accented oven-baked duckling.
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Wine Spectator
Powerfully fruity and richly spiced, offering concentrated dark berry and cherry flavors that show firm notes of forest floor, with loamy accents on the finish. Drink now through 2025. 200 cases made.
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.