The Sonoma Coast is one of the hardest places in California to ripen Pinot Noir — which is exactly the point. Flowers built its name on the windswept ridges above the Pacific fog line, and this bottling draws on organically farmed sites where ocean wind and cold nights keep the fruit tight and slow to ripen. The 2023 leans savory rather than sweet: wild red and blue brambles, pine, dried herbs, black tea, a nearly feral edge. Ten months in mostly neutral French oak keeps the frame light. Medium-bodied and driven by tension rather than power — a California Pinot for people who like a little wilderness in the glass.