Manenti Vittoria Frappato 2024 extra-brut-selection who founded Booker in Paso

who founded Booker in Paso Robles

California Trousseau on its own is rare enough

Every year two-thirds of the wine in each barrel is drawn off and replaced with that from the latest vintage

Kirin in the distant past

herbaceous nose of candied citrus and stone fruit

Manenti Vittoria Frappato 2024 extra-brut-selection who founded Booker in PasoFrappato is the grape that ruins people for heavy red wine. Grown in Vittoria's iron red sand over limestone, it comes out pale, floral and nearly weightless, closer in spirit to Cru Beaujolais or a cool climate Pinot than to anything most people expect from Sicily. Guglielmo and Marita Manenti farm four organic hectares of traditional bush vines here and make this with no extraction and no oak, which is the entire point: nothing gets in the way of