The wine

The Kutch Sonoma Coast is Jamie’s core wine and a great introduction to his style. For us this is typified by an exceptional combination of concentrated fruit with great freshness; unarguably the outcome of working with grapes from superb sites picked with perfect timing. With the Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir we are looking at a blend of sites – I suppose you could regard it as the village wine in comparison with the single vineyard 1er Crus if we’re going to look at the range through Burgundy tinted glasses.

There’s a real elegance to the structure of the wine from the utilisation of some whole cluster fermentation and it is bursting with the fresh, crunchy dark fruit flavours that I’ve come to associate with all of Jamie’s wines.

The producer

Running away from a ‘proper’ career to become a winemaker is a pretty common dream but...