Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
While tightly wound, this bold and complex wine made with 41% whole clusters is seriously concentrated, blending savory, cedary elements, red cherries and grilled plums. It’s a keeper; expect it to mellow and improve with time
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Wine Spectator
A fresh, savory-driven style, with a firm, stony minerality running underneath a core of damson plum and blood orange notes, while the savory edge knits everything up on the finish. Drink now through 2028.
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.