Frenchtown Farms North Yuba Cabernet Sauvignon/Syrah Perigree 2021 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 blending 90% Marsanne with 10%

blending 90% Marsanne with 10% Roussanne from steep granite and limestone slopes

This is the Mediterranean red you buy by the case

It won't surprise you

The 2023 is dense and slow to unfurl

Frenchtown Farms North Yuba Cabernet Sauvignon/Syrah Perigree 2021 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 blending 90% Marsanne with 10%A 50 50 blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah from Renaissance Vineyard, Aaron and Cara Mockrish's nod to Clos Saron's Black Pearl and Domaine de Trevallon. The Mockrishes farm old, own rooted, dry farmed blocks high in the North Yuba AVA, and Perigee is built with deliberate restraint: destemmed by hand, crushed by foot, co fermented in small bins with twice daily punchdowns, pressed after roughly three weeks on the skins, then aged in neutral oak