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| Onward pinot noir pét-nat Redwood Valley 2021 $27 Forlorn Hope “Trobairises” Rorick Heritage Vineyard Sierra Foothills 2020 $31 Popelouchum Blanc San Benito County 2023 $46 Delmore pinot noir Humboldt Country 2023 $38 Ashanta “Methuselah” California 2022 $40 |
| Our focus for tonight’s tasting is wine from California—some from old friends (Faith Armstrong, Randall Grahm), while others are from new ones. We’re starting with a refreshing, dry sparkling pinot noir from Mendocino, and then moving on to two dry white wines: one is a refreshing, acid-driven wine from the Sierra Foothills and made from the Languedocian white variety picpoul de pinet (rarely spotted in California but widely planted in the south of France), and a wine from Randall Graham’s new Popelouchum project, a mix of grenache blanc and gris. To finish, two red wines: one is a Humboldt county pinot noir (it’s astonishing to me that it’s possible to grow wine grapes there, due to the humidity, but here you go), the other a blend of old vine grapes, including a very old plot of mission (aka listán prieto) that the winemakers discovered in Napa. |