2023 CIX Estate Vineyard Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

Our first ever Estate Pinot Noir, the CIX is Grand Cru Aubert. This Pinot is our most reminiscent of red Burgundy. This cooler site in Forestville creates an ethereal, delicate, and elegant wine.

Mark Aubert’s Tasting Notes

The 2023 CIX Pinot Noir is complete in all senses. Expansive and refined, this is a wine that hits on all points. Bright raspberry and cherry underlie more savory aromas of truffle and Provence herbs. Long, steady ripening, old vines, and this special terroir fuse in a wine with the rare ability to communicate a sensation of site through its cool, petrichor tone and rosemary wildness. On the palate the wine is full of ripe bramble fruits, hoisin, and cedar spice, developing and building for minutes. The finish remains tightly packed, epic in intricacy and its promise for blossoming for many years in the cellar.