North American Press Lake County Kelsey Bench Lenoir Hero's Journey 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White Fresh quince and plum fruit

Fresh quince and plum fruit initally on the nose

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though it still carries the mineral intensity and structure that makes this vintage rewarding

The sherry-cask finish adds dried fruit and nutty complexity to the grape spirit's foundation

North American Press Lake County Kelsey Bench Lenoir Hero's Journey 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White Fresh quince and plum fruitLenoir 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