Winemaker Notes
This vintage entices the senses with aromas of pine tips, blackberry, and subtle hints of forest floor and Christmas spice. The firm tannin grip adds structure and depth to the palate, creating a captivating experience. The wine reveals delightful notes of cherry cola and a touch of creaminess, perfectly mingling with the enchanting presence of blueberry muffin. These characteristics make it an ideal choice for any occasion, offering a wine that is both versatile and enjoyable.
Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
A blend of fruit from six estate vineyards, this bottling is a shining achievement from a challenging vintage. Superb purity of fruit is the key to its success, with delicious notes of dark cherries and blackberries, alluring spice accents, and nascent savory undertones. The fruit, oak, acidity, and tannin prove perfectly integrated when it's given time to breathe, at which point it becomes breathtaking.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2022 Pinot Noir Price Family Estate from the Sonoma Coast is a jeweled ruby color and offers notes of pine needles, wild raspberries, brambly herbs, red flowers, and toasted incense. It has a finessed and floral feel, with fine tannins and a balanced intensity, an underlying savory note shining through.
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Wine Enthusiast
The nose of this wine evokes black cherry candy, clove-studded orange peel and fried shiitake mushroom. The palate is acid driven with flavors of cherry, blackberry and dry cocoa powder mixing and mingling before a plush, textural finish.
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Wine Spectator
Juicy and engaging, with tension to its mix of damson plum, cherry, rose petal and iris aromas and flavors thought he long focused racy finish. Drink now through 2032.
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Vinous
The 2022 Pinot Noir Price Family Estates is laced with crushed flowers, blood orange, spice and rose petal. It is the more floral and lifted of the two appellation-level Pinots. Bright acids pull it all together on the close.
Three Sticks Wines is a boutique, family-owned winery recognized for pinot noir and chardonnay. Proprietor Bill Price III (nicknamed “Billy Three Sticks”) owns six Grand Cru level estate vineyards in Sonoma County, including three Heritage vineyards–Durell, Gap’s Crown, and Walala and three Monopole vineyards–One Sky, Alana, and William James. An intimate relationship with each property shines through in each of the Three Sticks wines, reflecting a keen understanding of how working with great vineyards, along with a meticulous winemaking style, produces inspiring results.
The Vallejo-Castenada Adobe (built in 1842) was built by Captain Salvador Vallejo, brother of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the Commandante Generale of the northern territory of Mexico (modern day Sonoma). The Prices purchased the property in 2012 and embarked on a two-year preservation project. The Three Sticks team worked with Sonoma historians and the Sonoma League for Historic Preservation to restore and protect the fabric of the property. They commissioned San Francisco-based designer Ken Fulk and his team to design the ambience of the Adobe, as it is known locally. The historic landmark in downtown Sonoma is now home to the hospitality of Three Sticks.
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.