Winemaker Notes
Ruby in color. Aromas of crisp fresh cranberry, red berry, pomegranate, and black tea as well as rose hip, pepper and wet forest floor. The entry is light with flavors of crisp fresh red berry, and tart black cherry. Hints of vanilla and tannin in the mid palate with a long, silky finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Silky in texture, with a tannic bite, this lovely wine is spicy in cinnamon and clove, buoyed by ripe plum and wild strawberry. Medium in weight, it's complex and measured, balanced by a leathery, smooth finish and lively acidity.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
Refined and powerful, the hauntingly beautiful 2013 Trombetta Family Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir serves up some of the best attributes of this AVA—480,000 acres established in 1987. As one of California's largest AVAs, Sonoma Coast is sure to continue to redefine itself as it matures. I have been attracted to region's cranberry fruit, mineral, and savory earth, and this wine brings those characteristics right to the forefront. Pair it with a rosemary-infused rotisserie lamb and enjoy. (Tasted: August 14, 2017, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
I enjoyed the 2013 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast. Loads of plum, black cherry, earth, and forest floor are present in this fleshy, medium to full-bodied, concentrated and complex, Côtes de Nuits-style of Pinot Noir. The mouth texture is delicious, the purity is there, and the wine is ripe, round and delicious. This is somewhat of a sleeper of the vintage, as I am not familiar with Trombetta’s wines, but this is impressive.
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.