Young Inglewood VENN Clarksburg Cortese Lost Slough Vineyard 2021 NO20231018 for a palate tickling finish

for a palate tickling finish

California Grenache with the volume turned down and the energy turned up

precise fruit—wild strawberry on the nose with grainy tannins

none of the allocation drama

It is incredibly youthful for its age with beautiful bright red fruit that has slight hints of secondary characteristics starting to develop

Young Inglewood VENN Clarksburg Cortese Lost Slough Vineyard 2021 NO20231018 for a palate tickling finishCortese 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