Young Inglewood Napa Valley Cabernet Franc VENN 2020 GROWER Ichiro's Chichibu line is essential

Ichiro's Chichibu line is essential to try in its entirety

Hints of yellow apple

A bourbon made with high-rye content

This is a late disgorged (2019) version of the vintage gold label coming from a top vintage in champagne

Young Inglewood Napa Valley Cabernet Franc VENN 2020 GROWER Ichiro's Chichibu line is essentialNapa Cabernet Franc that's aiming at Chinon rather than at a steakhouse wine list. VENN is the second label from Young Inglewood, whose family has spent nearly twenty years stewarding benchland sites at the foot of the Mayacamas first planted in the 1870s the same stretch of Napa that made the region's reputation. Here they turn the volume down: native fermentation, 22 days on skins, 20 months in mostly neutral French oak, no fining or filtration, and