Kosta Browne Anderson Valley Pinot Noir 2018 NO20231108 none of the cachet or

none of the cachet or the price

launched with the 2017 vintage after the Cazes family of Lynch-Bages took over the estate in 2017

great-great-grandson Fabio Alessandria has revived the estate as one of Piedmont's most exciting small producers

finishing with saline

Spring Mountain Vineyard's proprietary red blends fruit from three historic ranches the estate stitched together in the early 1990s: Miravalle (the 1884 Victorian mansion familiar to anyone who watched Falcon Crest)

Kosta Browne Anderson Valley Pinot Noir 2018 NO20231108 none of the cachet orThis is Kosta Browne's first appellation level Anderson Valley Pinot, drawing fruit from the Cerise and Ferrington vineyards in this cool, fog funneled AVA sixty five miles north of the winery in Sebastopol. The 2018 vintage delivered the kind of balance Kosta Browne is famous for: a powerful core of dark cherry, blueberry, and bramble fruit framed by fine, grainy tannins and uplifting acidity. The polish is unmistakable, but the wine wears Anderson