Frenchtown Farms North Yuba Blanc de Noir Apogee 2021 ReasonableCellar2025 Baldovar 923 takes its name

Baldovar 923 takes its name from that altitude

rock candy and cucumber

born from his Thai-Chinese heritage and the realization that California Gewurz

a pair of single-vineyard prestige cuvees that honor the founder by spotlighting the kind of terroir-specific Champagne that the great houses rarely bottle on their own

thanks to an ocean of anonymous bottles that taste like nothing at all

Frenchtown Farms North Yuba Blanc de Noir Apogee 2021 ReasonableCellar2025 Baldovar 923 takes its nameDon't let the name fool you: Apogee is a sparkling Blanc de Noir made entirely from Cabernet Sauvignon, methode champenoise, from Aaron and Cara Mockrish's Frenchtown Farms in the high North Yuba AVA. The Mockrishes came to Sierra Foothills farming after a bottle of Clos Saron's Black Pearl pulled them off course, learned at Gideon Beinstock's side, and now tend old, own rooted, dry farmed blocks at Renaissance Vineyard. Apogee spends a year in barrel