Tatomer SLO Coast Pinot Noir 2023 BFCM21ALL The different botanicals are macerated

The different botanicals are macerated separately in triple-distilled grain alcohol

and eucalyptus

an extremely bright nose of poached apples and pears is complimented by a mineral backbone with a long and elegant finish

whole-cluster presses the fruit

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Tatomer SLO Coast Pinot Noir 2023 BFCM21ALL The different botanicals are maceratedFor 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