Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc Sunninghill 2023 NO20230823 the kind of Champagne that

the kind of Champagne that gets more interesting the longer it sits in the glass

David Pehu is an exceptional grower-producer based in Verzenay

carrying forward a tradition rooted in one of Italy's most dramatic landscapes

He’s an authority on Chenin Blanc

Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc Sunninghill 2023 NO20230823 the kind of Champagne thatA single acre of Sauvignon Blanc at 850 feet in the Vaca Mountains, farmed by a family that has been on this Napa ranch since 1955. Sunninghill is the outlier in Snowden's lineup, a mountain white in Cabernet country, and it is made with the same hands off logic Diana Snowden Seysses brings back from her other job at Burgundy's Domaine Dujac. Expect pure citrus and orchard fruit wrapped around a core of wet stone, not the loud grassy stuff. It opens