Young Inglewood VENN Clarksburg Cortese Lost Slough Vineyard 2021 GROWER structured character of Pinot Noir

structured character of Pinot Noir

and it's vintage-dated and rested a minimum of two years on the lees

geology and tectonics profoundly inform the character of Enz Vineyard and the wines it produces

tropical fruit and chocolate in the background

then aged sixteen months in neutral French oak and bottled without fining or filtration

Young Inglewood VENN Clarksburg Cortese Lost Slough Vineyard 2021 GROWER structured character of Pinot NoirCortese is the grape behind Gavi, in Piedmont which makes finding it in the Sacramento Delta a small act of geographic mischief. Lost Slough sits in Clarksburg, where river water and afternoon Delta breezes keep the clay soils cool, and Young Inglewood's VENN label bottles the fruit with almost nothing done to it: native yeast, stainless steel, no oak, nothing to blur the picture. What comes out is taut and citrusy, with the salty, brisk edge that