B. Kosuge Carneros Gamay Noir 2023 web-published wood and smoke

wood and smoke

It's a roughly even split of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir

medium full bodied sake

from a distillery founded in 1869 by John Smith—former manager of both Macallan and Glenlivet

The finish is long

B. Kosuge Carneros Gamay Noir 2023 web-published wood and smokeByron Kosuge spent fifteen years making Pinot at Saintsbury before launching his own label in Carneros, and this Gamay is one of his most personal projects. When he went looking for California Gamay in 2013 and couldn't find any, he grafted Gamay onto Pinot vines at The Shop, a small Carneros site near Napa. The wine is fermented with whole clusters and aged in older oak, giving it that crunchy, peppery, kinda Beaujolais character with a distinctly