Tatomer SLO Coast Pinot Noir 2023 NET with a core of flowers

with a core of flowers and wild berries

delivers brown sugar and baked blackberry aromatics alongside plum

it hits all the right notes on the palate

That “Illite” soil gives the Meunier an almost Chardonnay-like lift and the sort of refined texture that Meunier was traditionally reputed not to produce

Tatomer SLO Coast Pinot Noir 2023 NET with a core of flowersFor 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