North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 tag long fermentations in glass-lined concrete

long fermentations in glass-lined concrete

he recognized something was missing—a deeper connection to the vineyard itself

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North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 tag long fermentations in glass-lined concreteIn 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,