5L format offers an opportunity to savor its elegance in abundance
Forty-five days on skins followed by two years in large Slavonian casks build profound texture and complexity
finishing on a crunchy apple note and crushed rock salt – with an elegance and length that is unparalleled
so very little crosses the Atlantic
whole-cluster presses the fruit
Tatomer SLO Coast Pinot Noir 2023 BFCM21ALL 5L format offers an opportunityFor two decades Graham Tatomer has been the Riesling and Gruner guy, which is exactly why his Pinot Noir is worth paying attention to: he made it the same way he makes everything, obsessed with acid, structure, and transparency. It is pale in the glass and loaded with red fruit, closer in spirit to Marsannay than to anything from Sonoma. Fresh, serious, and entirely uninterested in being big. The fruit comes off the SLO Coast, a young AVA that is