Young Inglewood VENN Clarksburg Cortese Lost Slough Vineyard 2021 ROSSCELLAR Petit Sirah

Petit Sirah

Matured to perfection in charred American white oak barrels

a nose of toffee and Madeira-like nuance

As this dies down

along with a signature minerality

Young Inglewood VENN Clarksburg Cortese Lost Slough Vineyard 2021 ROSSCELLAR Petit SirahCortese is the grape behind Gavi, in Piedmont which makes finding it in the Sacramento Delta a small act of geographic mischief. Lost Slough sits in Clarksburg, where river water and afternoon Delta breezes keep the clay soils cool, and Young Inglewood's VENN label bottles the fruit with almost nothing done to it: native yeast, stainless steel, no oak, nothing to blur the picture. What comes out is taut and citrusy, with the salty, brisk edge that