Onward Suisun Valley Malvasia Bianca Petillant Naturel Capp Inn Ranch 2022 CS20231031 where Nebbiolo - locally called

where Nebbiolo - locally called Chiavennasca - grows on terraced hillsides carved into the mountains

and a reminder that dry Anjou Chenin is one of the best deals in white wine

fruit-driven wine with silky tannins that flow from start to finish

designed to anchor cocktails or intrigue on its own over ice

fermenting with indigenous yeasts in small vessels and aging over 10 months on fine lees with minimal sulfur—yielding a wine of surprising purity and mineral depth

Onward Suisun Valley Malvasia Bianca Petillant Naturel Capp Inn Ranch 2022 CS20231031 where Nebbiolo - locally calledMalvasia Bianca smells like it ought to be sweet, all jasmine, orange blossom and lychee, the entire tropical perfume counter, which makes the first sip of this pt nat genuinely disorienting. It is bone dry. Faith Armstrong Foster, who named Onward after the boat she rode to school off the British Columbia coast, sources the fruit from Capp Inn Ranch in Suisun Valley and bottles the wine before primary fermentation has finished, trapping the bubbles