Ceritas, Pinot Noir, Hellenthal 'Old Shop Block', Sonoma Coast, 2023, 75cl furmint Earthy ripeness and balanced minerality

Earthy ripeness and balanced minerality

with fruit more redolent of figs/prunes

Smooth and velvety

On the nose it has bananas and cucumber

Ceritas, Pinot Noir, Hellenthal 'Old Shop Block', Sonoma Coast, 2023, 75cl furmint Earthy ripeness and balanced mineralityCeritas favour minimal intervention in the cellar, and subscribe to particular methods that have proven best for expressing site through varietal. Their winemaking is flexible rather than dogmatic, inspired by traditional winemaking allowing the voice of the land and season to shine, rather than the effects of human cellar techniques. In the late 1970s Gard Hellenthal and David Hirsch began looking for vineyards north of Cazadero in the hills facing