Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 CM10 with the promise of excellent

with the promise of excellent cellaring potential

more assertive character than typical bourbon

His Frémiets reflects careful hand harvesting

creating a more intense

Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 CM10 with the promise of excellentThe 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