Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 extra-brut-selection A white wine that commands

A white wine that commands attention

This is a classic

it continues to develop in bottle

Then she married Erich Krutzler

as everything at this estate has been since 2010

Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 extra-brut-selection A white wine that commandsThe 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