2021 FLOWERS SONOMA COAST PINOT NOIR ROSE
2021 FLOWERS SONOMA COAST PINOT NOIR ROSE, CALIFORNIA. 100% Pinot Noir.
"Elegant and distinct, with aromas of peach, strawberry and subtle hints of rose petal. Bursts of fresh citrus colorfully drive the palate and are balanced with flavors of nectarine and stone fruit. A silky entrance coupled with fresh and uplifting acidity leaves you with our signature coastal expressions."
About: It was the gift from the bride to the groom, a wine credenza that held 120 bottles of wine, that began the journey of Flowers in 1983. Several years later, Joan and Walt Flowers found the property from a three-line ad in the back of the Wine Spectator, “321 acres, Sonoma Coast, vineyard potential.”
They had first come to California on a plant buying trip for their nursery in Pennsylvania and stayed in the Napa Valley to search for great Pinot. They learned that the Pinot grape thrives in high elevations in cooler, coastal climates. On their next buying trip, they decided to stay in Healdsburg, and since they wanted to further educate themselves on Pinot, Walt contacted Helen Turley and invited her to dinner. That evening, in the same restaurant, were Steve Kistler and his wife, who, among other things, said to Walt, “to get the really good Pinot, you have to be on someone’s mailing list.” The Flowers returned to Pennsylvania inspired and excited to have met with two of the most celebrated winemakers in the industry. Truly, the trip of a lifetime.
After their third trip out west, they began their search for a cool-climate property where they could grow some of the best Pinot and Chardonnay this side of Burgundy. Clearly, they had a background for growing, and they had the passion for wine.
The original Flowers property is just less than 2 miles as the crow flies from the Pacific Ocean itself. It is defined geographically by the San Andreas fault, which flanks the land known as Camp Meeting Ridge. Early earthquake activity pushed up this finger of land, creating the steep hillsides with well-drained and diverse soil types. The whole area was logged after the 1906 earthquake to rebuild San Francisco – but that’s it. Nobody came out here. The Pomo Indians were here in the 1800s and named it Camp Meeting Ridge – it was their spiritual meeting place. Later, when the Russians came down from Alaska to establish Fort Ross to grow food for their Alaskan settlement and trap for furs, it became a trading post. Other than that, Camp Meeting Ridge is a pristine property—it has never been farmed or utilized in any way.
When Joan and Walt Flowers came out to the Camp Meeting Ridge property in 1989, they looked across the canyon and saw three little plots of vines on the Bohan property, a ridgeline just east of the San Andreas fault. They were looking at the second ridge in from the coast, which is, on average, ten degrees warmer than the site they were buying.
After the purchase of Camp Meeting Ridge, the first trip was to the county to apply for an agriculture permit. The county informed Walt of the historic significance of Camp Meeting Ridge and required many studies, including botanical and geological surveys and archaeological digs; it said it would take about a year. Undaunted by these requirements, Walt said “Okay then, if this is going to take a year, I’m going to do soil analysis and rainfall as well.” At the end of the year, when the tests came back, it turned out the soil type and proximity to the ocean was similar to Burgundy. Walt was thrilled — he was going to get his Pinot.
Realizing they had just purchased 321 acres and could only fence 35 due to the steepness of the property, he called in the experts and showed them what he intended to do. Shaking their heads and rolling their eyes, they looked at Walt square on and told him he was crazy—you cannot ripen fruit this close to the coast. It can’t be done. You’re going to have fog and you’re going to have mildew; you can’t ripen fruit this close to the coast. But Walt wouldn’t take no for an answer, saying, “Just because it hasn’t been done doesn’t mean it can’t be done.” And he did it. (Winery)
"Elegant and distinct, with aromas of peach, strawberry and subtle hints of rose petal. Bursts of fresh citrus colorfully drive the palate and are balanced with flavors of nectarine and stone fruit. A silky entrance coupled with fresh and uplifting acidity leaves you with our signature coastal expressions."
About: It was the gift from the bride to the groom, a wine credenza that held 120 bottles of wine, that began the journey of Flowers in 1983. Several years later, Joan and Walt Flowers found the property from a three-line ad in the back of the Wine Spectator, “321 acres, Sonoma Coast, vineyard potential.”
They had first come to California on a plant buying trip for their nursery in Pennsylvania and stayed in the Napa Valley to search for great Pinot. They learned that the Pinot grape thrives in high elevations in cooler, coastal climates. On their next buying trip, they decided to stay in Healdsburg, and since they wanted to further educate themselves on Pinot, Walt contacted Helen Turley and invited her to dinner. That evening, in the same restaurant, were Steve Kistler and his wife, who, among other things, said to Walt, “to get the really good Pinot, you have to be on someone’s mailing list.” The Flowers returned to Pennsylvania inspired and excited to have met with two of the most celebrated winemakers in the industry. Truly, the trip of a lifetime.
After their third trip out west, they began their search for a cool-climate property where they could grow some of the best Pinot and Chardonnay this side of Burgundy. Clearly, they had a background for growing, and they had the passion for wine.
The original Flowers property is just less than 2 miles as the crow flies from the Pacific Ocean itself. It is defined geographically by the San Andreas fault, which flanks the land known as Camp Meeting Ridge. Early earthquake activity pushed up this finger of land, creating the steep hillsides with well-drained and diverse soil types. The whole area was logged after the 1906 earthquake to rebuild San Francisco – but that’s it. Nobody came out here. The Pomo Indians were here in the 1800s and named it Camp Meeting Ridge – it was their spiritual meeting place. Later, when the Russians came down from Alaska to establish Fort Ross to grow food for their Alaskan settlement and trap for furs, it became a trading post. Other than that, Camp Meeting Ridge is a pristine property—it has never been farmed or utilized in any way.
When Joan and Walt Flowers came out to the Camp Meeting Ridge property in 1989, they looked across the canyon and saw three little plots of vines on the Bohan property, a ridgeline just east of the San Andreas fault. They were looking at the second ridge in from the coast, which is, on average, ten degrees warmer than the site they were buying.
After the purchase of Camp Meeting Ridge, the first trip was to the county to apply for an agriculture permit. The county informed Walt of the historic significance of Camp Meeting Ridge and required many studies, including botanical and geological surveys and archaeological digs; it said it would take about a year. Undaunted by these requirements, Walt said “Okay then, if this is going to take a year, I’m going to do soil analysis and rainfall as well.” At the end of the year, when the tests came back, it turned out the soil type and proximity to the ocean was similar to Burgundy. Walt was thrilled — he was going to get his Pinot.
Realizing they had just purchased 321 acres and could only fence 35 due to the steepness of the property, he called in the experts and showed them what he intended to do. Shaking their heads and rolling their eyes, they looked at Walt square on and told him he was crazy—you cannot ripen fruit this close to the coast. It can’t be done. You’re going to have fog and you’re going to have mildew; you can’t ripen fruit this close to the coast. But Walt wouldn’t take no for an answer, saying, “Just because it hasn’t been done doesn’t mean it can’t be done.” And he did it. (Winery)
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