Our most exciting discovery from Joseph Wagner’s current crop of Pinot Noirs is the new 2021 Boen Coastal Standard. As its tech sheet informs us, this superb Pinot Noir is a blend from the Russian River Valley, The Santa Lucia Highlands and the Santa Maria Valley. In other words, from the same origins as the illustrious Belle Glos single-vineyard Pinot Noirs!
It's also, as good as the 2019 and 2020 Coastal Standards were, the best it has been in the once-in-a-generation vintage of 2021.
Keep in mind, the best price in town for the regular Boen Tri-Appellation Pinot Noir (at Total) is $25.49. The best price ANYWHERE for this Coastal Standard is $26.99.
Many winemakers are saying the very small, drought-reduced crop of 2021 produced the most concentrated and simply the best wines of their careers…and that definitely appears to be the case here with Boen.
This Coastal Standard 2021 has the richness, multidimensional and layered flavors and just sheer quality of previous vintages of Boen’s more expensive single-vineyard bottlings.
Surely the richest and most impressive $18 Pinot you can find.
