Stagiare Wines, It's Your Birthday (And all Your Enemies are Dead!), NV SO022026 Lienhardt This is a wine that

This is a wine that threads the needle between California ripeness and old-world restraint

This Brut Nature (zero dosage) strips away sugar masking

This Blanc de Noir offers Champagne-like finesse but with its own fresh

this wine opens with a captivating bouquet of dark cherries

Stagiare Wines, It's Your Birthday (And all Your Enemies are Dead!), NV SO022026 Lienhardt This is a wine thatBrent Mayeaux named his winery Stagiaire, French for the intern who does the grunt work, after apprenticing in cellars from Australia to the Jura, and this bottle is his idea of a party. Despite the celebratory name it's not a sparkler but a still, chillable light red, a zero zero co ferment of red and white grapes made with nothing added and nothing taken away. He built the project as a negociant, buying from organically farmed Northern California