Winemaker Notes
The 2024 Rosé offers spectacular balance, with bright, juicy fruit giving way to the intrigue of savory herbs and compelling textures. High-toned floral aromas on the nose soar over notes of wild strawberry and white raspberry, starfruit and cara cara orange, with a hint of spice. On the palate, vibrant acidity accentuates crunchy white nectarine that evolves into riper white stone fruit. The generous fruit gives way to a focused thread of wet stone minerality that underscores a persistent finish.
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The Flowers Rosé is a 100% Pinot Noir from the Sonoma Coast. The 2024 vintage shows a delicate salmon-pink hue with slightly perfumed aromas of ripe, macerated strawberries and white peaches. On the palate, it’s crisp and refreshing, a little minty, with a subtle mineral quality that gives it freshness. It’s a nice and well-balanced wine - great on its own, but also super easy-going when it comes to food pairing.
Whether it’s playful and fun or savory and serious, most rosé today is not your grandmother’s White Zinfandel, though that category remains strong. Pink wine has recently become quite trendy, and this time around it’s commonly quite dry. Since the pigment in red wines comes from keeping fermenting juice in contact with the grape skins for an extended period, it follows that a pink wine can be made using just a brief period of skin contact—usually just a couple of days. The resulting color depends on grape variety and winemaking style, ranging from pale salmon to deep magenta.
A vast appellation covering Sonoma County’s Pacific coastline, the Sonoma Coast AVA runs all the way from the Mendocino County border, south to the San Pablo Bay. The region can actually be divided into two sections—the actual coastal vineyards, marked by marine soils, cool temperatures and saline ocean breezes—and the warmer, drier vineyards further inland, which are still heavily influenced by the Pacific but not quite with same intensity.
Contained within the appellation are the much smaller Fort Ross-Seaview and Petaluma Gap AVAs.
The Sonoma Coast is highly regarded for elegant Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and, increasingly, cool-climate Syrah. The wines have high acidity, moderate alcohol, firm tannin, and balanced ripeness.