Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This gorgeous wine has a crisp entry of sumptuous cherry and strawberry laced in orange. It's lively and vibrant with just a layering of lightly spiced cardamom and cola. Not shy, it nonetheless retains a graceful sensibility within its powerful frame of bold brawny extroversion.
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Wine Spectator
Savory spice and cedar details accent the dried berry, cherry and red plum flavors. Lengthens out nicely midpalate, revealing light mocha and cream notes. Spicy finish.
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.