California Pinot Noir

The 2022 Pinot Noir UV - Lucky Well Vineyard is redolent of black cherry plum new leather tobacco incense and dried flowers. It offers lovely immediacy in a mid-weight approachable style with good balance and no hard edges. Floral... Read More

The Aston Estate is located in a remote part of the Sonoma Coast at Annapolis in Calistoga, just five miles and two mountain ridges from the ocean. The estate originated with the purchase of a 40 acre parcel in 2000, on a gentle... Read More

The 2022 Pinot Noir Bloom's Field is the most red-fruited and floral of the roster opening on a reserved note but ceaselessly escalating in intensity. The palate takes a dramatically powerful saturated turn into a slow-moving... Read More

The coiled intense 2023 Pinot Noir Bloom's Field is dark-fruited and floral on the nose leading to a multidimensional palate that combines textural depth and breadth with stunning saturation and focus. The palate is vibrant... Read More

The 2022 Pinot Noir La Côte opens with a composed harmonious nose that only hints at the concentration and weightless density found within combining bright high-toned fruit aromas with profound grounded savory flourishes. The... Read More

The most filled-in and concentrated wine on the roster the 2023 Pinot Noir La Côte shows its perennially high-toned lifted aromatics that contrast its twisted sinewy seamless and lacy texture. The finish is weightless yet punchy... Read More

The 2022 Pinot Noir Memorious has a bit of everything a Pinot Noir lover could want: poise focus vibrancy and subtle structural power. The nose straddles red and black berries with a flashy but measured intensity leading to a... Read More

Despite its dark and brooding reticence on the nose the 2023 Pinot Noir Memorious is shaping up to be a beautiful combination of polished weightless herbal and saline. The texture is beautifully lacy and dexterous with a long... Read More

The 2018 Pinot Noir Sanford and Benedict Vineyard The Twelve Rows is sourced from Block T6 which was planted in 1995. It was done with very gentle extractions the fruit crushed by foot with native ferments after which it spent... Read More

The 2022 Pinot Noir Estate Vineyard comes from high-density Swan and Calera-clone vines planted in 2004. Grapes were harvested on August 15-16 well before the Labor Day heat wave. This has expressive wild aromas of black and red... Read More

The 2022 Pinot Noir Ryan comes from the Dutton-Widdoes and Dutton-Jentoft Vineyards and grapes were harvested August 18 and later on September 4 just before the Labor Day heat wave. It unfurls dramatically in the glass where wild... Read More

The 2020 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast is a blend of declassified barrels from Ferren's single-vineyard program (specifically the Frei Road and Volpert vineyards). Matured for 18 months in 20% new French oak it has detailed scents... Read More

The 2021 Pinot Noir Estate San Andreas Fault is a blend of thirty parcels across the vineyard. Vibrant and super-complex the 2021 screams with precision right out of the gate. Dark red-toned fruit dried herbs mint and sage are... Read More

Ripe and succulent showing a delicious set of raspberry and boysenberry fruit flavors dotted with dried anise black tea and singed wood spice notes. This is rich yet defined and toasty yet fresh. Drink now through 2031. 975 cases... Read More

13% alcohol. Three miles from the Pacific at 1400 ft elevation this is a vineyard planted in 1972 on Goldridge soils 50% whole bunch. There’s a lovely spicy savoury intensity here with sweet black cherry fruit... Read More

13% alcohol. From a vineyard planted in 1999 in a cold foggy pocket of the Sonoma Coast. It’s Kutch’s most marginal site and this is fermented 50% whole cluster and is aged in old barrels.... Read More

13% alcohol. 11 barrels only of this Pinot which comes from a vineyard at 1010 feet 3.5 miles from the Pacific, planted in 1998. Greywacke and sandstone soils, 50% whole bunch, used French oak. Rocky soils and this is a warm site,... Read More

13% alcohol. From a vineyard owned by David and Stacy Gollnick planted in 2009 at 925 ft 8 miles from the Pacific on shale and silty clay loams. This is on a south-facing slope. 50% whole cluster. This has a lovely sweet ripe... Read More

The 2021 Pinot Noir Anna's Block was vinified with 50% whole clusters and has detailed aromas of cranberry blackberry bitter orange tobacco oolong tea leaves and wildflowers. The medium-bodied palate is chalky and vibrant... Read More