Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 CS20231023 the Chartogne-Taillet Cuvée Sainte Anne

the Chartogne-Taillet Cuvée Sainte Anne NV will reward cellaring over the next 2–3 years

and fresh agave

and longer than village-level Puligny has any business being

For maturing the whisky we use a combination of refill American oak (Bourbon) and first fill American oak (Bourbon)

Flowers Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2023 CS20231023 the Chartogne-Taillet Cuvée Sainte AnneThe 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