Winemaker Notes
The profile hews more to the darker fruit expression including plums and blackberry. There is depth of flavor across the mid palate (density) but it is not fat or fleshy. A few anise and bark notes peek out in the finish along with some floral notes from a touch of whole cluster.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Aromas of red fruit and berries, red apples and cinnamon. Medium-to full-bodied with fine, grippy tannins and good breadth on the palate. There is a degree of loftiness to the way this wine glides over the expansive and nuanced palate. Rather charming. Best after 2024.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Medium ruby-purple, the 2019 Estate Pinot Noir Pomarium opens slowly to rhubarb, blueberry preserves and blood orange with tones of licorice, dried violet and conifer, gaining more nuance as it spends time in the glass. The medium-bodied palate is powerful and expansive, with loads of powdery tannins, seamless acidity and layer after layer of spicy fruits, finishing with great length and intense flavors.
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Wine Spectator
Pure and fresh, with cedar spice notes to dried raspberry and cherry flavors backed by firm acidity. Hints of graphite on the structured finish. Drink now through 2024.
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.