built to age but already singing
and in Roagna's hands it becomes something transcendent
when cloth merchant Florens-Louis Heidsieck presented his first bottles to Marie-Antoinette
an ancient native grape often overshadowed by Aglianico
organically grown Grenache planted in the metavolcanic rock of the eastern Alexander Valley foothills
Bedrock Wine Company, Dry Creek Valley Lorenzo's Heritage, 2019 MSK_Champagne_Pre-Sale_2023 built to age but alreadyThese are vines older than your grandparents' grandparents. Lorenzo's Heritage comes from the Teldeschi Ranch on the western bench of Dry Creek Valley, where the dry farmed, head trained vines were planted between roughly 1900 and 1955 in red gravelly alluvial soil. It's a true field blend, picked and co fermented all together the way it was planted: Zinfandel leads (around 60%), backed by Carignane, Petite Sirah, and a scattering of Alicante