Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 extra-brut-selection TASTE: Very big mouth-feel and

TASTE: Very big mouth-feel and long

cocoa nibs

This elegant Pinot Noir from a mid-slope vineyard reveals the minerality of limestone-scree soils and deep clay beneath

aged six months in oak with a quarter of it new

Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 extra-brut-selection TASTE: Very big mouth-feel andThe Sonoma Coast is one of the hardest places in California to ripen Pinot Noir which is exactly the point. Flowers built its name on the windswept ridges above the Pacific fog line, and this bottling draws on organically farmed sites where ocean wind and cold nights keep the fruit tight and slow to ripen. The 2023 leans savory rather than sweet: wild red and blue brambles, pine, dried herbs, black tea, a nearly feral edge. Ten months in mostly