North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 CS20230718 a site shaped by two

a site shaped by two pioneering growers

Eric even served as Mayor of Ambonnay from 2008 to 2014

Domaine Gadais sources this mineral masterpiece from old-vine fruit fermented with indigenous yeasts

A fantastic everyday Champagne

North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 CS20230718 a site shaped by twoIn 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,