2024 | Monte Rio Cellars The Bench Clements Hills | Lodi Midorikawa leading to a flavorful finish

leading to a flavorful finish with length

well-integrated and softly textured red wine

aged 60 months on lees

Thyme-honey

this wine vividly represents all that Mosel wine should be

2024 | Monte Rio Cellars The Bench Clements Hills | Lodi Midorikawa leading to a flavorful finishThis offering from Monte Rio Cellars is not a traditional Vermentino. It spends some time on the skins, giving it more texture and giving the wine more richness and fullness on the palate. While some might think of this as a natural wine, it is a low intervention project from a meticulously farmed vineyard. The fruit is highly aromatic with nectarine, melon, pink grapefruit, dried chicory, and sedimentary rock on the nose, and the palate is racy