One Last Pour of Summer.
24 Hours of Flowers.

Dear Artisans,

When Walt and Joan Flowers planted Pinot Noir on the ridges of the extreme Sonoma Coast in 1989, the conventional wisdom said the grapes would never ripen out there: too much fog, too much wind, too close to a cold ocean.

The conventional wisdom was wrong.

Those wind-blown, salt-touched ridges under two miles from the Pacific turned out to make some of the most vivid cool-climate wine in California, and Flowers became the estate that put the True Sonoma Coast on the map. For the last weekend of summer, we are putting three of their wines on a 24-hour sale, from $44.99.

When we last offered the 2024 Sonoma Coast Chardonnay, it carried a single early review. The full slate has since landed, and it reads like a coronation: 95 from James Suckling, 95 and an Editor's Choice from Wine Enthusiast, 93 from Jeb Dunnuck, 93 from Wine Spectator. At $44.99 on this sale, it is the best white-wine buy in the store for your last warm evenings of the year.

Sea View Ridge is the estate vineyard this whole story is built on: 1,400 to 1,800 feet up, above the fog line, shallow rocky soils, the ocean in sight for miles. The 2023 came off a cold, late vintage in a three-day harvest and earned 98 points from James Suckling, who calls it “built for aging,” plus 97 from Decanter. Only 1,900 cases were made.

We are down to our last two bottles, and they are in this sale at $109.97.

Cheers,

— James Tran