Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 051826OFFER This is not Champagne

This is not Champagne

Production is tiny and beloved in France

warm cycle

fine texture and great freshness

a pocket of the upper Loire in the Nievre

Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 051826OFFER This is not ChampagneThe 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