Red Wine: 2014 | Rivers-Marie | Sonoma Coast Pinot NoirA ripe and relatively deeply pitched nose features notes of black currant, plum and a lovely array of spice elements.Order from the Largest & Most Trusted Premium Spirits Marketplace!Featured inROLLING STONEMEN'S JOURNALUS WEEKLYNOTICE: Many other small liquor store sites may end up cancelling your order due to the high demand, unavailability or inaccurate inventory counts. We have partnerships consisting of a large network of licensed retailers from within the United States, Europe and across the world ensuring orders are fulfilled. Producer: Rivers-MarieRatings: WA | 93VN | 93Vintage: 2014Size: 750mlABV: 14.3%Varietal: Pinot Noir Country/Region: United States, CaliforniaDetailed DescriptionA ripe and relatively deeply pitched nose features notes of black currant, plum and a lovely array of spice elements. There is both good volume and richness to the delicious and velvet-textured middle weight flavors that possess good if not truly special depth and length on the ever-so-slightly warm finale.Reviews:Wine Advocate: I tasted three Pinot Noirs from Thomas Rivers Brown. The 2014 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast is a heck of a bargain. Coming from multiple clones such as Mt. Eden, Dijon 828 and the Pommard selection, this delicious, flowery/rose petal-scented Pinot Noir offers up faint blueberries and raspberries, forest floor, a medium body and is seductive.Vinous: The 2014 Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast) is juicy, delicious and extroverted, with striking purity and energy in its fruit. Succulent dark cherry, plum, spice and blueberry flesh out effortlessly. This is an especially forward, juicy Pinot that will drink well upon release. Most importantly, the Sonoma Coast is absolutely delicious. Even at its new price of $30 a bottle, the Sonoma Coast is a steal and in my view the single greatest value in California Pinot Noir. Producer InformationRivers-Marie is a wine producer based in Calistoga, Napa Valley, but primarily known for its small-production Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines. It was founded by husband-and-wife team Thomas Rivers Brown and Genevieve Marie Walsh, and made its first vintage of Pinot Noir in 2002. Rivers-Marie wines are sold exclusively through a mailing list, with annual production ranging from 60 to 600 cases per label. Winemaker Thomas Brown got his start in the wine industry working under Ehren Jordan at Turley Wine Cellars. In 2002, he had the opportunity to purchase fruit from the respected Summa Vineyard, a two-hectare (six-acre) site planted in 1978. Brown purchased the Summa Vineyard outright in 2010 and today produces two single-vineyard Pinot Noir wines from the vineyard, as well as single-vineyard Pinot Noir wines from Occidental Ridge Vineyard, Kanzler Vineyard and Silver Eagle Vineyard. Rivers-Marie began making Chardonnay in 2007, and today makes single-vineyard wines from the Thieriot and Joy Road vineyards, as well as a generic Sonoma Coast cuv??e. The winery also makes several Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon wines, including single-vineyard bottlings from Calistoga, St Helena and Oakville. As well as Rivers-Marie, Brown is involved in numerous winemaking projects across California.