The 2021 Pinot Noir Golden Hour is more upfront and expressive, with a sweet core of strawberries, black raspberries, spice, and dried flowers. Incredibly complex, medium to full-bodied, round, supple, and undeniably sexy, this is ultra-classic California Pinot Noir done brilliantly. I love it today yet see no reason it shouldn t evolve for 7-8 years, if not longer.
97 Lisa Perrotti-Brown - The Wine Independent
Medium ruby-purple in color, the 2021 Golden Hour Pinot Noir is quite closed, needing patient swirling to evoke a fabulously floral perfume of roses, aniseed, and dark chocolate over a core of black cherries, black raspberries, and fresh blackberries with wafts of wild sage and iron ore. The medium to full-bodied palate has a gorgeous satiny texture and seamless freshness supporting the vibrant red and black fruit layers, finishing on a persistent ferrous note. "This is about expressing the full extent of ripeness that Pinot can give," says owner Jayson Woodbridge. "On the Sonoma Coast, Pinot Noir gets to a different place that it just can't get to elsewhere."
