Tatomer SLO Coast Pinot Noir 2023 NO20230823 A blend of base vintage

A blend of base vintage wine and solera reserve wine going back to 2011

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brown butter and lemon zest

Tatomer SLO Coast Pinot Noir 2023 NO20230823 A blend of base vintageFor 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