North American Press Lake County Kelsey Bench Lenoir Hero's Journey 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White Produced at Torino Distillati

Produced at Torino Distillati

From a seven-hectare southwest-facing parcel comes Sauvignon Blanc reimagined—partial barrel fermentation transforms this into a wine led by texture rather than aromatics

sun-baked toe

with the pencil-shaving edge that makes Loire Cab Franc so easy to love

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

North American Press Lake County Kelsey Bench Lenoir Hero's Journey 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White Produced at Torino DistillatiLenoir 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