Wayfarer Pinot Noir Fort Ross-Seaview Wayfarer Vineyard The Estate 2023

About This Wine

#8 Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2025!  

Wayfarer vineyard is extraordinary and unforgiving: undulating slopes hidden among winding mountain roads and redwoods, swathing a ridge on the northwestern reach of the Sonoma Coast. This remote landscape is the provenance of wildly beautiful wines born of risk, rigor and mastery – small-lot Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the Pacific's most dramatic appellation. Wayfarer was founded as a secluded farmstead more than 40 years ago, before its locale was defined as the now coveted Fort Ross-Seaview AVA. In 1998, Jayson Pahlmeyer’s winemaker, Helen Turley, discovered the site for sale down the road from her Marcassin vineyard. She introduced it to Pahlmeyer, declaring it destined to become the La Tache of California. 

Score 

95 points, Wine Spectator.