2022 Summer Dreams 'Twilight' Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 6pk Sampler 6x750ml
- From the Cult Mind Behind Hundred Acre Winery
- Where Coastal Power Meets Sonoma Coast Poise
- "The Richest Expression of the Summer Dreams Pinot Noirs." ~97 Decanter
- Grown in Goldridge Soils Over Ancient Seabed
- " Lovely Freshness, Finishing on a Persistent Ferrous Note" ~ 97 The Wine Independent
- "Dark, Intense, Yet Undeniably Good" ~ Jonathan Cristaldi, Decanter
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About the Offer
For more than 25 years, Jayson Woodbridge has built a reputation as one of Napa Valley’s most uncompromising winemakers, earning over 61 perfect 100-point scores for his Bordeaux-driven wines under the Hundred Acre label. Precision, intensity, and an obsessive focus on site have always defined his work.
Over the last decade, that obsession led him west. Drawn to the raw beauty, extreme conditions, and singular soils of the West Sonoma Coast, Jayson began quietly sourcing fruit and experimenting outside of Napa, determined to explore what Pinot Noir could become in a radically different environment. Rather than extending Hundred Acre, he chose to create an entirely new project, Summer Dreams, giving the wines their own identity and the freedom to evolve independently, focused purely on site expression, restraint, and nuance.
Each Summer Dreams Pinot Noir is a barrel-selection blend, built slowly as Jayson tastes through individual lots, shaping a wine that reflects a specific moment on the California coast. That philosophy comes into sharp focus with the 2022 Summer Dreams “Twilight” Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast, a wine designed to capture the darker, more introspective side of the region. Twilight reflects the tension between coastal freshness and depth, channeling the cool Pacific influence, hillside structure, and layered complexity that define the Sonoma Coast at its most compelling.
Some of these vineyards sit on Goldridge soils layered over an ancient seabed, where fossilized remnants are not uncommon. This rare, fine-grained sandy loam offers excellent drainage while retaining just enough moisture through the growing season. Combined with steep hillside slopes, elevations ranging from 900 to 1,900 feet, and a coastal climate marked by warm, dry summers and cool, damp winters, these sites deliver natural intensity, freshness, and dimension.
As Jonathan Cristaldi of Decanter puts it, this style is “Like the Darth Vader of Pinot—dark, intense, yet undeniably good.”
In the cellar, the approach mirrors the vineyards’ precision. Whole berries, 100% destemmed, are fermented in a mix of new and used French oak puncheons and open-top tanks, allowing texture and structure to build without excess. Aging follows in 100% new French oak, with 20% in puncheons, preserving depth while maintaining balance and clarity.
This 6pk includes
- 6 bottles of 2022 Summer Dreams 'Twilight' Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast
This is the most layered, the richest expression of the Summer Dreams Pinot Noirs. Twilight is the most powerful time in life, the point between light and darkness, between day and night, when we are at our most productive, and this wine, according to proprietory Jayson Woodbridge, embodies all that. 'It has incredible staying power, showcasing Pinot Noir at its most muscular—like a warrior Pinot. It will carry you through the darkest times,' he says, and indeed, it does carry the light and dark as it unfurls with black cherry and spiced plum fruits, dark chocolate, and saline minerals. Its rich, creamy, and powerful character is underscored by fabulous minerality and brisk acidity. This wine makes a compelling argument for the power of Pinot—never underestimate it. Jayson doesn’t care if you accept the style; he makes it boldly and unapologetically. 'It’s like the Darth Vader of Pinot—dark, intense, yet undeniably good,' he says. Fabulous umami notes of long-roasted beef and intense charred mineral character, seaweed, and everything the ocean can deliver in your glass are also present. All this from 100% Pinot Noir from the West Sonoma Coast, Annapolis, and Fort Ross-Seaview AVAs. Whole berries are fermented in open-top tanks and puncheons with a mix of Demptos and Taransaud barrels from blonde, tight-grained Vosges forest wood. The wine is bottled unfined. In 2019, Jayson Woodbridge of Hundred Acre began producing Chardonnay and Pinot Noir under the Summer Dreams label, using fruit from cool-climate vineyards on the extreme Sonoma Coast. ~ 97 Decanter
Medium ruby-purple colored, the 2022 Twilight Pinot Noir slowly emerges from the glass with the most beautiful perfume of rose bud tea and dried lavender, opening out to a core of kirsch, black raspberries, and mulberries, plus hints of underbrush and iron ore. The medium to full-bodied palate is intense with mineral-laced red and black fruit flavors, supported by grainy tannins and lovely freshness, finishing on a persistent ferrous note. ~ 97 The Wine Independent
Lastly, the 2022 Pinot Noir Twilight is one of the riper, more marine-influenced wines in the lineup. Ripe red and black fruits, autumn leaves, sea breeze, and subtle baking spice notes all define the aromatics, and it hits the palate with medium to full-bodied richness, a round, layered mouthfeel, and velvety tannins. ~ 96 Jeb Dunnuck
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Free Shipping is included in the price of this pack of 6 750ml bottles. Substitutions of featured wines may be made at BHW's discretion.
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