North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 CACOFFER Taste: Bold

Taste: Bold

no dosage or added sulfur

this one emphasizes creamy vanilla and orchard fruit

the 2022 shows rich

The brut variety of this cider is sparkling and stands out for its fresh

North American Press Suisun Valley Sparkling Catawba Pariah 2023 CACOFFER Taste: BoldIn 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,