Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 CM10 highlighting its vibrant tension and

highlighting its vibrant tension and precision

with the promise of excellent cellaring potential

His Frémiets reflects careful hand harvesting

more assertive character than typical bourbon

and structured enough to pair with food that few lighter whites could handle

Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 CM10 highlighting its vibrant tension andThe 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