Young Inglewood VENN Napa Valley Carbonic Merlot 2021 NO20230802 green apple

green apple

VENN exists to make wines that are easy to find on a European vacation and weirdly hard to find here — this one nails the brief

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then bottled unfined

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Young Inglewood VENN Napa Valley Carbonic Merlot 2021 NO20230802 green appleVENN is the Young family's playground their experimental project at the boutique St. Helena estate, where they pull Napa Merlot in unexpected directions. This bottling is carbonic, fermented whole cluster in the Beaujolais manner, which gives Merlot a totally different face: bright, juicy, perfumed, and built around fruit rather than oak or structure. It's Napa Merlot you'd want to chill slightly and pour through dinner. Proof that the variety has