North American Press Lake County Kelsey Bench Lenoir Hero's Journey 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White The sherry-cask finish adds dried

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

Produced at Torino Distillati

and fresh bread

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

Fresh quince and plum fruit initally on the nose

North American Press Lake County Kelsey Bench Lenoir Hero's Journey 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White The sherry-cask finish adds driedLenoir 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