Winemaker Notes
Aromas of bing cherry, cardamon, resin and strawberry lead to flavors of cranberry, flint, forest floor and rich raspberry. The finish is vibrant.
Try this wine with wild Pacific salmon or a wild mushroom and lentil ragout.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
A blend of Pinot Noir across the Talley estate sites, this wine shows wonderfully, with intricate aromatics of rose petals, smoke and dusty red berries. The palate is savoury and shows brilliant structure as rooibos, sea salt and savoury herbs frame tart raspberry and cranberries with a note of salty blood orange at the finish.
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Vinous
The 2023 Pinot Noir Estate Grown (San Luis Obispo Coast) highlights all the signatures of the region. Chaparral, black tea, tobacco and underbrush accent a core of bitter cherry fruit and toasty oak spice. Energetic and elegant, the 2023 offers lovely purity and a clear sense of place.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
The largest and perhaps most varied of California’s wine-growing regions, the Central Coast produces a good majority of the state's wine. This vast California wine district stretches from San Francisco all the way to Santa Barbara along the coast, and reaches inland nearly all the way to the Central Valley.
Encompassing an extremely diverse array of climates, soil types and wine styles, it contains many smaller sub-AVAs, including San Francisco Bay, Monterey, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Paso Robles, Edna Valley, Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Maria Valley.
While the Central Coast California wine region could probably support almost any major grape varietiy, it is famous for a few Central Coast reds and whites. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel are among the major ones. The Central Coast is home to many of the state's small, artisanal wineries crafting unique, high-quality wines, as well as larger producers also making exceptional wines.