Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
This is last vintage for this cuvée, as the vineyard was purchased by an investment company and is seeing a change in pricing. The 2014 Pinot Noir Platt Vineyard offers outstanding notes of strawberries, spice, framboise and hints of forest floor. Medium-bodied, seamless and elegant, with polished tannin, it’s a classy Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir to drink over the coming decade or so.
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James Suckling
A tangy and fresh red with plum and berry character and some orange peel as well. Medium to full body, round and juicy tannins and a flavorful finish. Drink or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2014 Pinot Noir Platt Vineyard is pale to medium ruby-purple in color with a beautiful perfume of crushed Bing cherries, cranberries and mulberries with touches of violets, dark chocolate and forest floor. Medium to full-bodied, the palate sports a firm frame of grainy tannins and wonderful freshness, framed with red berry and earthy layers, finishing long and perfumed.
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Wine Spectator
Very spicy and peppery, this is firmly structured, deep and layered, with tiers of wild berry. Ends long and lingering. Drink now through 2022.
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.