Winemaker Notes
The 2023 Bohan-Dillon is an expressive and impressive vintage of this wine. The nose is a gorgeous bouquet of raspberries, cherries, and plums, with subtle hints of graphite and cassis. On the palate the wine is juicy and drinkable, with gentle tannins. With air, notes of rhubarb, sumac and forest floor emerge. This is a wine of fantastic personality and character. It can be enjoyed young with a wide variety of foods.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This is so crunchy and refined, with beautiful fresh strawberry, orange peel, citrus, flint and slate aromas. Medium-bodied, crisp and clean, with just a hint of tannin at the end. A blend of three vineyards: Hirsh 43%, Hellenthal 22% and Heitz 35%. What a gorgeous pinot.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2023 Pinot Noir The Bohan-Dillon pours a medium red color and is fresh and savory with aromatics of pine needles, cranberries, anise, orange zest, and fresh herbs. The only non-estate wine they produce, it’s sourced from roughly equal parts Hirsch Vineyard, Heintz Vineyard, and Helenthan Vineyard. Medium-bodied, it offers refreshing acidity, an even, silky texture, and a great finish revealing savory notes of salted citrus.
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Vinous
The 2023 Pinot Noir The Bohan-Dillon is a very pretty, understated offering from Hirsch. Silky tannins wrap around a core of bright red-toned fruit, cedar, sweet pipe tobacco and dried herbs. This mid-weight Pinot is all charm.
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.