North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 NO20230802 Unlike Taittinger’s classic stainless steel

Unlike Taittinger’s classic stainless steel vinification

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North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 NO20230802 Unlike Taittinger’s classic stainless steelIn 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,