Young Inglewood VENN Clarksburg Cortese Lost Slough Vineyard 2021 NO20231018 and a young Bourbon

and a young Bourbon

and 20% Vermentino

in a spritz

California Grenache with the volume turned down and the energy turned up

mineral-driven finish that speaks to the terroir's complexity

Young Inglewood VENN Clarksburg Cortese Lost Slough Vineyard 2021 NO20231018 and a young BourbonCortese is the grape behind Gavi, in Piedmont which makes finding it in the Sacramento Delta a small act of geographic mischief. Lost Slough sits in Clarksburg, where river water and afternoon Delta breezes keep the clay soils cool, and Young Inglewood's VENN label bottles the fruit with almost nothing done to it: native yeast, stainless steel, no oak, nothing to blur the picture. What comes out is taut and citrusy, with the salty, brisk edge that