North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 2025 L'Assemblage Part 2 The aromatics on this wine

The aromatics on this wine also smell like harvest – that complex mix of earthy

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and the vineyard delivers on the name: a mid-slope Beaune premier cru whose stony soils give Pinot Noir a lift and polish that richer sites cannot fake

the Champagne retains a fresh yet rounded profile

North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 2025 L'Assemblage Part 2 The aromatics on this wineIn 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,