Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 051826OFFER a pocket of the upper

a pocket of the upper Loire in the Nievre

This is not Champagne

Sylvain Morey inherited his father Jean-Marc's Burgundy vineyards in 2014 and has quickly earned acclaim for richly textured Chardonnays with firm mineral structure

Medium-bodied

It's structured and serious without taking itself too seriously

Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 051826OFFER a pocket of the upperThe 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