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All Wines from Occidental
Inventory updated: Fri, Nov 28, 2025 09:02 AM cst
Our vintages of Occidental wine currently include: 2018, 2021
Flickinger Fine Wines' inventory of Occidental wine is listed below. We have an excellent and vast assortment of fine wines to choose from. If you do not see what you are looking for, give us a call and we can suggest another Occidental vintage or even another producer that we are sure you will enjoy.
| Producer |
Vint. |
Wine |
Price |
Qty |
Order |
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| Occidental |
2018 |
Freestone-Occidental Pinot Noir  |
$125 |
4 |
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WA 95+ (7/2020): The 2018 Pinot Noir Freestone-Occidental comes mostly from younger vines at the Occidental property but is made with the same attention to detail as the other wines in the portfolio, using free-run juice. Its nose is an aromatic well, offering crushed blueberries, charcuterie, Earl Grey tea leaves, graphite, saline, bitter orange peel and potpourri aromas. In the mouth, it explodes with lush fruits that give way after their initial rush to bitter, citrusy, minerally accents. It has a fine grain, seamless freshness and long, layered finish. It's enjoyable now but will age well over the next five to eight-plus years.
VM 94 (1/2020): The 2018 Pinot Noir Freestone Occidental is a truly remarkable wine. Maybe that is the vintage, or the added complexity the vines are acquiring with time, but the 2018 Freestone Occidental makes me incredibly curious to taste the rest of the 2018s. Bright, focused and beautifully sculpted, the 2018 is a wine of total elegance and finesse. Moreover, it captures the savory, energetic, saline style that is so typical of this part of the Sonoma Coast. (Drink between 2023-2039). Antonio Galloni. |
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2018 |
Occidental Station Vyd. Pinot Noir |
$159 |
2 |
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WA 98 (7/2021): Medium ruby in color, the 2018 Pinot Noir Occidental Station Vineyard has intense, liquid-like raspberry and boysenberry aromas, layered with notes of dusty earth, Earl Grey tea leaves, salted licorice and graphite, continuing to blossom with time in the glass. The medium-bodied palate merges intense, detailed fruit character with seamless freshness and a finely pixelated texture. It finishes with tremendous detail and perfumed flavors that seem to hang on forever in the mouth. Wow!
VM 98 (1/2021): The 2018 Pinot Noir Occidental Station is a dense, packed Pinot. Its huge core of fruit gives the Occidental Station tons of inner strength. Readers will have to be patient. Time in the glass brings out a whole range of inky red fruit, blood orange, exotic spice aromas and flavors, with swaths of tannin that wrap it all together. As always, the Occidental Station is quite a different beast from the other wines in the range, as it emerges from a site about fifteen miles from the winery that is quite a bit warmer and therefore lends a decidedly more exotic, ripe personality to the flavors. Even so, there is plenty of supporting structure and minerality to balance things out. (Drink between 2024-2038). Antonio Galloni.
JD 97 (7/2021): Slightly deeper hued, the 2018 Pinot Noir Occidental Station Vineyard has a rich, spicy nose of cassis and ripe black cherries supported by beautiful bouquet garni and floral nuances. It has background oak, medium to full body, ripe yet building tannins, and just a beautiful purity as well as freshness that keeps you coming back to the glass. It has enough tannins and acidity to benefit from short-term bottle age, but it has a rounded, elegant texture as well and is far from unapproachable today. It should have 15 years of longevity. (Drink between 2021-2036). |
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2021 |
Running Fence Vyd. Cuvee Catherine Pinot Noir |
$149 |
4 |
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WA 98 (1/2025): The 2021 Pinot Noir Running Fence Vineyard Cuvée Catherine offers tremendous energy and purity and will be long lived in the cellar. The nose features soaring scents of wild cherry, cranberry, bitter orange, hibiscus, graphite and botanicals. It floods the mouth with layer after layer of detailed, floral fruit. It has an haute couture structure, its powdery tannins and linear acidity seamlessly nestled into generous, nuanced flavors, and a tremendously long, dynamic finish.
VM 97 (1/2024): The 2021 Pinot Noir Running Fence Vineyard Cuvée Catherine is gorgeous. Dense and layered, with tremendous vibrancy, the 2021 captures the magic of the West Sonoma Coast in its marriage of fruit intensity and energy. Dark blue/purplish fruit, spice, new leather, menthol, licorice and crushed rocks all race across the palate. This really explodes on the back end. All the elements are so well balanced. There’s real depth and density here. The mix of suitcase clones on Riparia Gloire rootstock expresses notable darkness and richness, all with the freshness and lower alcohols that are typical of the West Sonoma Coast. (Drink between 2026-2036). Antonio Galloni.
JD 97 (6/2024): Pouring a ripe jeweled ruby/magenta color, the 2021 Pinot Noir Running Fence Vineyard Cuvee Catherine comes from a vineyard situated just outside the winery, which they began planting in 2012 on more well-draining, gravelly soils. The wine is spicy and layered on the nose with umami undertones, boasting a savory marine influence in its notes of black raspberry, brambly red berries, iodine, and incense. It has a good deal of richness in texture, with ripe tannins and a long finish. This is built for the long haul. Audrey Frick.
BH 93 (4/2025): Here the expressive nose is both spicier and ever-so-slightly riper with its aromas of poached plum, dark currant and pretty floral wisps. There is again good verve to the caressing and seductively textured medium weight flavors that possess an attractive sappiness thanks to the abundance of dry extract that also helps to buffer the firm structure buffering the dusty, firm and youthfully austere finish where a touch of tannic asperity slowly emerges. This is lovely but clearly built-to-age and a wine that's going to need it. (Drink starting 2031). |
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