Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Cabernet Franc Melchior Kemper Vineyard 2021 MARQUE more fleshy Chablis

more fleshy Chablis

Grapes are hand harvested and vinified with native yeasts

impossible to resist now

It is the same wine that the domaine used to just call Blanc de Blancs Extra NV

with 45 to 50% reserve wines helping to bring homogeneity

Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Cabernet Franc Melchior Kemper Vineyard 2021 MARQUE more fleshy ChablisMelchior Kemper farmed this Napa ranch from 1881 to 1895. Today his name sits on 962 vines of Cabernet Franc planted at 800 feet in the Vaca Mountains. The Snowden family has stewarded the land since 1955, and the wines are made by third generation Diana Snowden Seysses, who spends half her year making wine at Burgundy's Domaine Dujac. That double life shows: native yeasts, restraint, and a flat refusal to chase generic Napa richness. This is