Tatomer SLO Coast Pinot Noir 2023 NO20230712 100% chenin NV

100% chenin NV

into the back of a box canyon running perpendicular to the Cienega Valley in San Benito County

grainy tannins and refreshing acidity

gentian and mint

and dried ginger

Tatomer SLO Coast Pinot Noir 2023 NO20230712 100% chenin NVFor two decades Graham Tatomer has been the Riesling and Gruner guy, which is exactly why his Pinot Noir is worth paying attention to: he made it the same way he makes everything, obsessed with acid, structure, and transparency. It is pale in the glass and loaded with red fruit, closer in spirit to Marsannay than to anything from Sonoma. Fresh, serious, and entirely uninterested in being big. The fruit comes off the SLO Coast, a young AVA that is