Freestone-Occidental Pinot Noir
- Red
- United States
- Sonoma Coast
- Pinot Noir
- Tracked vintages
- 10
- Community notes
- 165
- Merchant offers
- 66
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 94/ 1002024 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 86/ 100165 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £50per 75 cl2023 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
- Drinking window
- 2023–2030peak2020 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 190 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Californian Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir Red.
- Body3.0 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.6 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin2.1 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Red fruit · cherry, cranberry, strawberry, raspberry, red fruit
- Earth · earthy, forest floor, leather, mushroom, smoke
- Oak · oak, vanilla, cola, chocolate, cedar
- Spice · pepper, white pepper, cinnamon, star anise, licorice
- Black fruit · plum, black cherry, blackberry, blueberry, black fruit
- Floral · violet, perfume, dried rose, hibiscus, potpourri
Grapes: Pinot Noir. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2016One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2023
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 202494criticunit not stated
- 202394critic£50 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
- 202287drinkers£49 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
- 202195critic£56 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 202094critic£48 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
- 201994critic£59 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
- 201895critic£78 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
- 201793critic£52 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020
- 201692critic£44 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2021
- 201594critic
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2021
- 95 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2015
- peak, window 2020–2030
- Lowest price
- 2016
- £44 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | £50 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026 |
| 2022 | £49 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024 |
| 2021 | £56 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2020 | £48 | 93.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026 |
| 2019 | £59 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023 |
| 2018 | £78 | 94.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024 |
| 2017 | £52 | 93 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020 |
| 2016 | £44 | 92 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2021 |
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