2024 | Monte Rio Cellars The Bench Clements Hills | Lodi San Salvatore flavors of green apple unfold

flavors of green apple unfold with crisp precision

with richness and opulence masking powerful tannins

The texture is nervy and built from very firm

toasted thyme and cardamom on the nose

8 pH and has an IPT (total polyphenol index) of 77

2024 | Monte Rio Cellars The Bench Clements Hills | Lodi San Salvatore flavors of green apple unfoldThis offering from Monte Rio Cellars is not a traditional Vermentino. It spends some time on the skins, giving it more texture and giving the wine more richness and fullness on the palate. While some might think of this as a natural wine, it is a low intervention project from a meticulously farmed vineyard. The fruit is highly aromatic with nectarine, melon, pink grapefruit, dried chicory, and sedimentary rock on the nose, and the palate is racy