Pinot With Purity and Poise
We’re excited to offer you a limited allocation of 2023 Anthill Farms Pinot Noirs from Campbell Ranch and Peters Vineyard as well as their entry-level Sonoma Coast bottling—among the crown jewels in Anthill’s portfolio and brilliant showcases of California’s cool-climate terroir. These wines represent the soul of the Sonoma Coast and the finesse-driven style that has made Anthill Farms a modern benchmark in Pinot Noir. While we were at it, we dug through our cellars and found a few bottles of the 2022 Campbell Ranch we had squirreled away for the right occasion.
Campbell Ranch, located near Annapolis on the true Sonoma Coast, sits just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean. At nearly 800 feet elevation, the vineyard is regularly blanketed in fog, giving the fruit long hang times and preserving its natural acidity. The resulting wine is a bit reduced and brooding, with notes of wild raspberries, cherries, conifer, graphite, and crushed herbs. It’s structured and powerful yet lifted by coastal freshness—a wine that shows off the wild beauty of Sonoma’s remote coastline. A good sit in a decanter really brings out the beauty of this wine.
In contrast, Peters Vineyard lies inland near Sebastopol, planted on Goldridge sandy loam soils under organic farming. It’s a cooler site with excellent drainage and slow ripening, yielding wines that are finer-boned and red-fruited, with bright cherry, tea leaf, rose petal, and hints of baking spice. The 2023 Peters Pinot is particularly expressive—silky, fragrant, and incredibly pure, offering a Burgundian grace rare in California at this price point.
These are not overly ripe or manipulated Pinots. They’re nuanced, terroir-driven, and built to evolve, with winemaking that emphasizes low intervention and allows each site’s personality to shine. Whether you’re already a fan or just discovering Anthill, these two bottlings are perfect introductions to why this producer continues to impress critics, sommeliers, and collectors alike. I know I’ve been smitten since my first taste, and I always bought as much as I had room to store in order to have the wines available for as long as possible for sale in my restaurant days. I rarely was able to keep them on my lists until the next year’s offer came out.
If you’ve followed Anthill in previous vintages, you already know: the wines sell fast, with most allocations snapped up by an eager following of insiders. If you’re new to the label, the 2023s are a perfect place to start—capturing everything that makes this project so compelling: purity, poise, and a quiet confidence that speaks volumes in the glass.
91+ Wine Advocate
The recently bottled 2022 Pinot Noir Campbell Ranch opens with some savory reduction, and it takes plenty of air to reveal red berries and blood orange aromas. The light-bodied palate is bright and citrusy with chalky tannins and a touch of planky oak, although it grows in expression with time in the glass. Give it 2-3 years in bottle to come together.
Winemaker Notes
Very dark ruby. Campbell is lusciously smooth and pliant with amazing acidity. The nose showcases exotic aromas of intense cherry, raspberry, blood orange and warm soil. After time open, the wine fans out on the palate in flavors mirroring the nose. For all its immediate pleasure, an open bottle after 4 hours uncoils and shows incredible depth and focus. Campbell’s mouthfeel goes on and on, with flavors and aromas turning more ethereal & perfumed gliding on the palate with a character specific to this site in the northern Sonoma Coast/Annapolis AVA. Drink now over the next 10 years. 60% whole cluster 13.4% ABV
Winemaker Notes
Dark red color. Most often our most approachable single-vineyard bottling – and this is no exception. The low yields of the vintage are apparent. There’s an obvious, immediate deepness. Darker flavors of cherry, rose petal, cinnamon, black tea are typical from the start. After an hour of being open, aromas and flavors begin to jump from the glass and coat the palate with very fine, powdery tannins. At 40-years-old, the pinot vines at Peters are hitting their stride and making wines that are glorious to drink now and for the next 7 years. 50% whole cluster 13.2% ABV
