Alma Fria Holterman Vineyard - 2016 Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast
The 2.56-acre Holtermann Vineyard, located just north of Annapolis, CA (population 200) and five miles inland from the captivating Sea Ranch coastal community, is truly farming on the edge. Its proximity to the ocean moderates daily high temperatures and diurnal fluctuations, leading to consistent seasons and slow, balanced fruit development.
Taste: As vineyard’s age, their wines simply taste more and more like themselves. They synthesize the surrounding plants, underlying rocks and climatic winds into flavors that represents the exact place.
Sure, this 2019 vintage offers the usual hints of blood orange, cranberry, and cinnamon stick but, mostly, it tastes like standing in the middle of the vineyard on a foggy wet morning while breathing in fresh redwood twigs and drinking in the layers of natural history beneath your feet.
The 2.56-acre Holtermann Vineyard, located just north of Annapolis, CA (population 200) and five miles inland from the captivating Sea Ranch coastal community, is truly farming on the edge. Its proximity to the ocean moderates daily high temperatures and diurnal fluctuations, leading to consistent seasons and slow, balanced fruit development.
Taste: As vineyard’s age, their wines simply taste more and more like themselves. They synthesize the surrounding plants, underlying rocks and climatic winds into flavors that represents the exact place.
Sure, this 2019 vintage offers the usual hints of blood orange, cranberry, and cinnamon stick but, mostly, it tastes like standing in the middle of the vineyard on a foggy wet morning while breathing in fresh redwood twigs and drinking in the layers of natural history beneath your feet.
The 2.56-acre Holtermann Vineyard, located just north of Annapolis, CA (population 200) and five miles inland from the captivating Sea Ranch coastal community, is truly farming on the edge. Its proximity to the ocean moderates daily high temperatures and diurnal fluctuations, leading to consistent seasons and slow, balanced fruit development.
Taste: As vineyard’s age, their wines simply taste more and more like themselves. They synthesize the surrounding plants, underlying rocks and climatic winds into flavors that represents the exact place.
Sure, this 2019 vintage offers the usual hints of blood orange, cranberry, and cinnamon stick but, mostly, it tastes like standing in the middle of the vineyard on a foggy wet morning while breathing in fresh redwood twigs and drinking in the layers of natural history beneath your feet.