Winemaker Notes
This wine opens up with inviting fruit aromas of bright raspberry, blackberry, and Bing cherry. Hints of forest floor, black tea, crushed rose petals, and faint sweet vanilla round out the aromatic profile. The wine wafts over your palate with a robust, yet elegant texture. A berry medley of flavors fill the palate with raspberry, just ripe cherry, and cranberry. This layered wine is complimented by seamless integrated oak.
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.