North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 2025 L'Assemblage Part 2 and the vineyard delivers on

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

Two decades on

The nose is pure and focused

If Barolo intimidates you

North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 2025 L'Assemblage Part 2 and the vineyard delivers onIn 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,