Flowers Pinot Noir Sea View Ridge

Winemaker Notes Intense brick red hue. This wine is deceptively elegant with deep aromatics of strawberry and black plum mingling with forest floor sage lavender and fresh bay leaf. The palate is distinctive with wet stone minerality brilliant acidity and well integrated silky tannins. Give this wine a little time to unfold in your glass to fully experience its many complex layers. 2013 Vintage Notes 2013 was a wonderful growing season along the Sonoma Coast. Early abundant winter rainfall with warmer and drier weather in February led to budbreak in early March and the onset of flowering the second week of May. With unusual timing the estate experienced three inches of rainfall near the end of June raising concerns for mildew pressure. Fortunately cool and windy weather brought mitigating air-flow into the vines. The rainfall was greatly appreciated by the vines after a very dry spring. The first signs of veraison appeared the third week of July and the continuation of mode