Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Cabernet Franc Melchior Kemper Vineyard 2021 bis-hidden dried-flower lift of a serious

dried-flower lift of a serious Beaujolais and the sunny mountain fruit of its address

Farmed organically and pulled from a patchwork of lieux-dits across the appellation

where it is generally racy and picked very early

the Maritima estate captures the salt-scrubbed essence of the coast in a bottle of California Chardonnay

crunchy pomegranate

Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Cabernet Franc Melchior Kemper Vineyard 2021 bis-hidden dried-flower lift of a seriousMelchior Kemper farmed this Napa ranch from 1881 to 1895. Today his name sits on 962 vines of Cabernet Franc planted at 800 feet in the Vaca Mountains. The Snowden family has stewarded the land since 1955, and the wines are made by third generation Diana Snowden Seysses, who spends half her year making wine at Burgundy's Domaine Dujac. That double life shows: native yeasts, restraint, and a flat refusal to chase generic Napa richness. This is