Vaughn Duffy Russian River Valley Pinot Noir Bacigalupi Vineyards 2023 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Shaped by a continental climate

Shaped by a continental climate with a whisper of cool Mediterranean winds

Solessence is a reflection of the diversity of the Coteaux Sud d´Epernay

with zero additives

Alma Fria has farmed it since the project's founding

so it drinks rich but never flabby

Vaughn Duffy Russian River Valley Pinot Noir Bacigalupi Vineyards 2023 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Shaped by a continental climateThe Bacigalupi name sits inside one of California's founding legends: their Chardonnay made up a large share of the 1973 Chateau Montelena that beat white Burgundy in Paris in 1976. Three generations later the family still farms the same Westside Road ground in the Russian River Valley, and their Pinot Noir is some of the most sought after fruit in Sonoma. Matt Duffy and Sara Vaughn get a small allocation of it and bottle it on its own rather than