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Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast Estate

Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast Estate Wine Details
Price: $45.00 per bottle

Description: This is our first offering of Pinot Noir from anywhere other than our own estate. We will be offering a Sonoma Coast bottling every year for the foreseeable future sourced from a select cast of vineyards. Our first wine is an eight barrel bottling from a few small, young vineyards within sight of the Pacific Ocean. Sonoma Coast as an appellation has supported wine grapes for quite some time, but in very limited quantities. Because of this, we didn't quite know what to expect in terms of aromatic and flavor profile. Tasting the now bottled wine, we are pleased to find some classic cool weather elements: vibrant garnet color, floral nose, minty/peppery palate and good acidity. Jeff Ames, our assistant winemaker, remarked that the wine reminded him of the '96 Williams-Selyem "Hirsch Vineyard" which to us is a supreme compliment.




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