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2023 Summer Dreams 'Twilight' Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 6pk Sampler (6x750ml)
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2023 Summer Dreams 'Twilight' Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 6pk Sampler (6x750ml)

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  • From the Cult Mind Behind Hundred Acre Winery
  • Where Coastal Power Meets Sonoma Coast Poise
  • "Lots of Character" ~ 96 James Suckling
  • "Brisk Acidity and That Same Savoury Through-Line" ~ 95 Decanter
  • "Dark, Intense, Yet Undeniably Good" ~ Jonathan Cristaldi, Decanter
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$950
$779.28
$129.88 / bottle when you buy the 6-pack
You save $170.72

About The Wine

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 2023 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 precision of the vineyards. 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.

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At A Glance

Varietal:
Pinot Noir
Region:
Napa Valley
Sub-Appellation:
Sonoma Coast
Size:
750ml

TASTING NOTES

What's in the Glass

PAIRS WITH
Duck · Chicken · Poultry · Meat

Mouthfeel & Acidity

Light Body Full Body
 
 
 
 
 
Low Acidity High Acidity
 
 
 
 
 
Soft Tannins Firm Tannins
Dry Sweet
  • 6 bottles of 2023 Summer Dreams 'Twilight' Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast (6x750ml)

Aromas of ripe strawberries, cherries, umami, and a hint of flint. Medium-bodied with firm tannins and a smoky and earthy finish. Spicy at the end with lightly bitter citrus notes.Lots of character. Drink now. ~ 96 James Suckling

The previous release of this Pinot Noir from Jayson Woodbridge—of Hundred Acre fame—was a dark, intense red, rife with umami depth. In this vintage, the wine shows the same fruit intensity layered with espresso bean, clove, and orange peel notes, with brisk acidity and that same savoury through-line. Crafted from 100% Pinot Noir sourced from the West Sonoma Coast, including Annapolis and Fort Ross-Seaview AVAs, whole berries are fermented in open-top tanks and puncheons, then aged in a mix of Demptos and Taransaud barrels made from blonde, tight-grained Vosges forest oak. The wine is bottled unfined. Jayson Woodbridge launched the Summer Dreams label in 2019, producing Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from cool-climate vineyards along the extreme Sonoma Coast. ~ 95 Decanter

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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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THE PRODUCER

Summer Dreams

Summer Dreams is Jayson Woodbridge’s deeply personal exploration of Pinot Noir on the West Sonoma Coast, created as a deliberate departure from his legendary Napa Cabernet work at Hundred Acre.

Drawn to the region’s extreme coastal climate, rugged hillsides, and distinctive Goldridge soils, Woodbridge built Summer Dreams as a standalone project focused on nuance, restraint, and site expression. The wines capture a darker, more introspective side of California Pinot Noir—layered, textured, and driven by tension—reflecting both the raw beauty of the Sonoma Coast and the uncompromising precision of one of California’s most exacting winemakers.

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