Young Inglewood Napa Valley Cabernet Franc VENN 2020 CS20230516 Blue Gin is a gin-drinker’s

Blue Gin is a gin-drinker’s gin

Its bright acidity and saline backbone make it a natural match for oysters

High-altitude Tempranillo from chalky limestone soils that sings with minerality and freshness

as does the alcohol

Intoxicating aromatics of ripe stone fruit

Young Inglewood Napa Valley Cabernet Franc VENN 2020 CS20230516 Blue Gin is a gin-drinker’sNapa 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