North American Press Lake County Kelsey Bench Lenoir Hero's Journey 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White Fresh quince and plum fruit

Fresh quince and plum fruit initally on the nose

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

The sherry-cask finish adds dried fruit and nutty complexity to the grape spirit's foundation

and fresh bread

North American Press Lake County Kelsey Bench Lenoir Hero's Journey 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White Fresh quince and plum fruitLenoir 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