North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 MH with Chardonnay

with Chardonnay

this is a sensational expression of Pessac-Léognan's terroir

The Crede 1542 is named for the clay soil in the base of the wines from the cru of Valdobbiadene

very delicious

brioche and toast

North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 MH with ChardonnayIn the 1850s, the most celebrated wine in America was sparkling Catawba. Longfellow liked it enough to write a poem about it. Then vine disease, Prohibition and fashion buried the grape, and Catawba became a punchline, which is exactly why Matt Niess named this bottling Pariah. He hand harvested a single row of dry farmed Catawba in Suisun Valley's alluvial soils and gave it the full traditional method treatment: second fermentation in the bottle,