Two Legends Combine for Sonoma Greatness
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2018 Chateau Buena Vista Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 750 ml
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Doubling Down on Sonoma’s Greatness
Bold, silky, and Californian through and through, Buena Vista Winery’s Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast captures the glorious majesty of the Golden State like few others—and stole our hearts when we tasted it—with the breed and class of a mailing-list-only bottling twice its price.
It’s the result of an all-star combination of Jean-Charles Boisset, one of the most important men in Burgundy, and living-legend Sonoma winemaker David Ramey. Together, they’ve restored California’s oldest premium winery, founded just after the Gold Rush, to its original glory.
They harnessed the near-perfect 2018 vintage—the greatest ever for Sonoma Pinot, according to Vinous—to produce this monument to the Sonoma Coast.
Pouring a glass, it was clear to us that this was superlative Sonoma Pinot in the mold of a Rochioli or Kistler. Bright, purple-ruby wine swirls around the glass, exploding with bold aromas of succulent black cherries, sassafras, tea roses, and bay laurel. On the palate there’s a purity and elegance, with glistening baked cherries, white flowers, and a hint of baking spice, leading to a long, elegant finish that coats the mouth.
In other words, it's a classic Ramey wine, at half the cost of the other bottles with his name on them.
Jean-Charles Boisset has developed an extensive network of vineyards to source the finest Pinot he can, so the fruit that went into the 2018 Buena Vista Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast is nothing less than outstanding. In the cellar, the wine undergoes gentle extraction and then ages in just 20% new oak to polish it to perfection. The result is a wine that’s a masterclass on Sonoma terroir, and at a price that belies its storied upbringing.