North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 MH made from a unique mix

made from a unique mix of 35 mostly organic herbs

with Chardonnay

very delicious

conditions that would humble most European vines

borderline-feral character that cool-climate Syrah does better than any grape in California

North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 MH made from a unique mixIn 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,