2023 Ceritas Costalina Pinot Noir California

Since 2005, Ceritas has been making some of the most sought-after Pinot Noir in California — the kind of wine you can only get on their mailing list or at a handful of the country's best restaurants. This is a small collective of people who know the West Sonoma Coast intimately, spending more time in the vineyard than the winery, memorizing every row, learning what each site can express.

The Costalina bottling is their coastal love letter — a tribute to everything delicious about young West Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir. This is the appellation where cold Pacific fog rolls in every afternoon, where the vines struggle in thin, rocky soils, where the growing season stretches long and slow. The result is Pinot with brilliant clarity, high-toned red fruit, and the kind of natural tension that makes Burgundy drinkers lean in.

The 2023 vintage shows beautifully pure raspberry, brilliant garnet color, and aromatic richness packed with saturated red fruit. On the palate: noble tannin, vibrant freshness, flavors of cranberry, fresh raspberry, and Rainier cherry. The wines Ceritas makes are uncovered, not built — rendered with as little interference as they can manage, each bottle a record of a specific place and season.

This is Pinot you can decant and drink tonight or cellar for a decade-plus. The tannins are well-defined and ripe, the finish floats, and the whole wine has a Grenache-like prettiness that makes it dangerously approachable.