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with the structure to drink now or hold a few years

From a seven-hectare southwest-facing parcel comes Sauvignon Blanc reimagined—partial barrel fermentation transforms this into a wine led by texture rather than aromatics

Made in the Italian style using all local Southern Californian grapes

Fresh quince and plum fruit initally on the nose

North American Press Lake County Kelsey Bench Lenoir Hero's Journey 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White sun-baked toeLenoir is a grape that gets used and never credited, a tough American variety long grown in Texas and prized for shrugging off the pests and diseases that flatten European vines. Matt Niess thinks it deserves a bottle of its own. He founded North American Press in 2019 after a decade of Burgundian winemaking at Radio Coteau, and now works exclusively with North America's native grapes and hybrids: vines that handle California's climatic extremes