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Flowers

Pennsylvania nursery owners, Walt and Joan Flowers, had always wanted to combine their love of wine and agriculture, and in 1989 their dream became reality. After visiting Northern California wine country for years, the couple purchased 321 acres on the Sonoma Coast. Their two vineyards, the Camp Meeting Ridge and Sea View Ridge, are planted almost exclusively to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with some tiny parcels of Pinot Meunier.

The producer only uses organic and sustainable farming practices that create a distinct complexity for their fresh and acidic, cool-climate fruit. All of the wines are also fermented in open-top tanks, use natural gravity flows, and use wild yeasts as a means to ensure a true expression of the vineyards in the final product when the wines are enjoyed.

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Tasting Notes

W&S94
Long-time readers of this magazine will not be surprised that I love this wine. When it comes to chardonnay, Flowers’s Sonoma Coast bottling consistently delivers a fresh, fragrant, silken, mouthwatering wine. The freshness in the 2009 tastes real, the tension of the acidity captures the briskness of the far coast (70 percent of the blend in this vintage). The texture and flavor are woven together into a soft cushion of white raspberry, tart lime, white flowers, silk and down. Designed to drink rather than to impress, there’s nothing challenging about it.

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