Winemaker Notes
High-pitched aromas of red raspberry, crushed stone, and rose oetal. A pure, crystalline wine that features a stunning combination of precision, finesse, and razor-edged salinity. This is a beautifully layered and balanced wine that finishes with bright red fruit and floral intensity.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Pinot Noir Bodega Headlands Vineyard Cuvée Elizabeth is chiseled, energetic and surprisingly youthful. It offers complex aromatics that unfurl dramatically in the glass: initial touches of flint and tar give way to wild cherry, blackberry, blood orange, iron and seaweed. The palate's highly concentrated flavors combine with vertical acidity to create refreshing waves of bitters-laced fruit, and the finish is defined by singular oceanic tones.
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.