Tatomer SLO Coast Pinot Noir 2023 NO20230823 vanilla and a lingering

vanilla and a lingering

brown butter and lemon zest

A profound flourish of violets is a surprising conclusion

and a long

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

Tatomer SLO Coast Pinot Noir 2023 NO20230823 vanilla and a lingeringFor 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