2013 Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast)
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I tasted a wide range of wines during two recent visits with Steve Kistler, his business partner Mark Bixler, and winemaker Jason Kesner. In 2013, the Chardonnays are more consistent across the board than the Pinots. Yields were naturally high in 2013, largely the result of large berries, which seems to have affected the Pinots more than the Chardonnays. In 2014, it is the exact opposite. Lower yields and small berries helped create ideal conditions for making superb Pinot Noir. The 2014 Chardonnays are more variable than the Pinots today, but better wines suggest there is plenty of latent potential in some of these wines that is not obvious today.
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I tasted a wide range of wines during two recent visits with Steve Kistler, his business partner Mark Bixler, and winemaker Jason Kesner. In 2013, the Chardonnays are more consistent across the board than the Pinots. Yields were naturally high in 2013, largely the result of large berries, which seems to have affected the Pinots more than the Chardonnays. In 2014, it is the exact opposite. Lower yields and small berries helped create ideal conditions for making superb Pinot Noir. The 2014 Chardonnays are more variable than the Pinots today, but better wines suggest there is plenty of latent potential in some of these wines that is not obvious today.
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I tasted all of Kistler's 2013s in October 2014, shortly prior to bottling. According to Steve Kistler, the 2013 harvest was two weeks earlier than it was in 2012, which is pretty typical across Sonoma. I found the 2013s to have considerable energy and tension. It will be interesting to see how that translates once the wines have settled down in bottle.
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