Rivers-Marie Bodega Thieriot Vineyard Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2024 (750ML)

Thomas Rivers Brown’s Rivers-Marie leases Bodega Thieriot, a nine-acre vineyard on Freestone Ridge in the West Sonoma Coast, next door to Platt and Occidental. It was planted in 2018 entirely to the Calera clone, using cuttings from Platt, and Brown credits a run of wet winters with bringing the young vines to the point of making a complete wine. The 2024 is 100% Pinot Noir. After a late, difficult 2023, the season returned to a normal rhythm; heat spikes in July and October needed managing, but there were no major shocks, and the berries came in large and juicy. The wine is generous and expansive, with dark red fruit, black raspberry, white pepper, rose petal and an iron edge, carried by bright acidity and fine tannins. Critics place its peak between now and 2038. Try it with duck breast, seared tuna or roast beets with goat cheese.