North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 2025 L'Assemblage Part 2 Now entering its finest drinking

Now entering its finest drinking window

the Champagne retains a fresh yet rounded profile

It's dry with bright acidity and a heady nose of jasmine flowers

If Barolo intimidates you

North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 2025 L'Assemblage Part 2 Now entering its finest drinkingIn 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,