Winemaker Notes
This wine originates in the Petaluma Gap and offers up clean aromas of bright red cherry, saline and spice. Balanced and elegant in the mouth, it features a medium bodied frame with strong acidity. It unwinds with exposure to air and reveals flavors of dried flowers and red fruits. It will drink well from release and should age gracefully for up to a decade.
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
The cool winds and Goldridge soils at this vineyard southwest of Sebastopol—eight miles from the Pacific and just above the Petaluma Gap—bring out the delicate freshness of pinot noir. David Low captured the fragrant strawberry essence and the chewy cherry-skin tannins of the grape in this graceful 2017. The wine presents quiet, high-toned fruit and a hint of cinnamon spice, gentle and persistent.
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Wine Enthusiast
Bold black-cherry and strawberry layers adorn this balanced, lightbodied wine that’s deceptively big in flavor and intensity. With integrated oak and tannin, it allows room for savory characteristics of forest and clove to speak.
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.