Hirsch Vineyards Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir Rose 2024 TBO and a structured frame that

and a structured frame that promises good things with another few years in bottle

it ages effortlessly for a decade or more

and absolutely mandatory for a proper Last Word

no commercial additives

Hirsch Vineyards Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir Rose 2024 TBO and a structured frame thatA rose made with the seriousness Hirsch brings to its Chardonnay: barrel fermented without added yeast, ten months in oak, then a further ten months in bottle before it is allowed out the door. The fruit is entirely estate Pinot Noir from the biodynamically farmed ridge at Fort Ross Seaview, destemmed and macerated overnight before pressing, which is where the luminous coral color and the real texture come from. Roughly a third of the barrels are new