2023 Three Sticks Pinot Noir Gap’s Crown Vineyard, Petaluma Gap
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 97 Points
The aromas of this vibrant Pinot Noir surge forth as a rich, youthfully bright, focused rendering of classic Gap's Crown fruit, with scents of boysenberry, Bing cherry, blood orange, mace and baking spice at center stage and saline mineral undercurrents in reserve. On the palate it proves as rich and zesty as expected yet is surprisingly gripping, gutsy and exceptionally long. The dominant flavors, a combination of blueberry, blood orange and Bing cherry, are made richer by notes of spice cake and mace. If certainly delicious and dinner worthy now, the may improve for another three or four years. 565 cases produced.