North American Press Lake County Kelsey Bench Lenoir Hero's Journey 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White and fresh bread

and fresh bread

A nose of mint and fresh green cardamom with a hint of sfumato leads to a palate with pleasant lift

making this an easy drinking wine that still holds enough complexity for wine aficionados anywhere

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North American Press Lake County Kelsey Bench Lenoir Hero's Journey 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White and fresh breadLenoir is a grape that gets used and never credited, a tough American variety long grown in Texas and prized for shrugging off the pests and diseases that flatten European vines. Matt Niess thinks it deserves a bottle of its own. He founded North American Press in 2019 after a decade of Burgundian winemaking at Radio Coteau, and now works exclusively with North America's native grapes and hybrids: vines that handle California's climatic extremes