From top sites, a polished, classy Pinot at an everyday price
- Curated by unrivaled experts
- Choose your delivery date
- Temperature controlled shipping options
- Get credited back if a wine fails to impress
2022 Meadowcroft Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 750 ml
- Curated by unrivaled experts
- Choose your delivery date
- Temperature controlled shipping options
- Get credited back if a wine fails to impress
One of California’s Great Rolodexes
This Meadowcroft Pinot Noir is a testament to the deep network of connections and skill of its founder, Tom Meadowcroft.
As a former vineyard manager for Opus One, Cakebread, Duckhorn, and Stags Leap, he developed one of the deepest Rolodexes in the business. Once he launched his own label, he started mining those connections to deliver outrageous values—like today’s 2022 Sonoma Coast Pinot.
The Sonoma Coast is famed for deep Goldridge sandy-loam soils, dense morning fog, and the lush, dark-cherry Pinot Noirs that they create. For this bottling, Tom secured access to three prime sites—the most famous of which is a prime-time site in the Petaluma Gap that makes $50+ wines from Sojourn and cherry-packed $60+ bottles from a winemaker we definitely would get sued for mentioning. Unfortunately, these vineyards are in high demand, so only ten barrels of this wine exist in the world.
In the 2022 vintage, the region was blessed with a smooth—if lower yielding—growing season. Those lower yields were the result of small berries, which in turn produced concentrated wines. Decanter noted that “winemakers across the board appear to be delighted” with the quality of the fruit they harvested.
Here, that translates to seductive cherry and blackberry notes, accented by the signature kola nut, rose petals, and vanilla of the region. The polish on the palate suggests a Pinot in the $50+ range—which is what this real estate normally suggests, as well. It’s a bottle that’s fine being a Saturday night centerpiece, but it will certainly tempt you on the weeknights.