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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&S93
This is consistently on of the most restrained and delicate pinots you'll find in California. A blend from far-coast sites, in 2009 this is 30 percent from Flower's Sea View Ranch, plus fruit from the DZ and Peterson vineyards and other western Sonoma sites in the Sebastopol and Occidental areas. It's long on strawberry- and cranberry-scented fruit, layered withe the complexity that far-coast pinot can attain, a complexity that seems to be tied to the acidic, ridge-top soils where conifer forests once thrived. The structure leaves room for food, like grilled fennel sausage. Best Buy

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