Sonoma Coast Bohan Vineyard Pinot Noir

Beef, Veal, Game (deer, venison), Poultry

Jamie Kutch’s route to winemaking began late. He had graduated in finance and found himself increasingly bored with the rat race of New York trading floor. As he became more and more fixated on wine and the industry, he would chuck it all in and relocate to California, armed with savings, a steadfast determination and unbridled passion to produce Pinot Noir. His inaugural releases came as recently as 2005. After a rocky road, Kutch is today considered one of the leading exponents of Pinot Noir, ever refining and thrilling for wines of refinement, brightness and translucent expression of place.

The Bohan’s have been farming since 1857, raising various cattle and poultry. Vineyards were established in 1972, after consideration for new ways to utilize the land, and after annual and significant losses of sheep to coyotes. At the time, this was a pioneering move in planting grapes on West Sonoma Coast. After some experimentation, they went all in on vines, despite contrary warnings that planting ungrafted vines so close to the Pacific would result in failure

50% whole-cluster fermentation, with indigenous yeasts.