Dirty and Rowdy, Cuvee Herve, 2018 CS20230901 The standard bearer for traditionally

The standard bearer for traditionally made Chianti Classico

a nod to some of the first privately owned vineyard land in the valley

Give it a slight chill and it's the definition of a Tuesday-night crowd-pleaser that happens to have real conviction behind it

and distinctly Madeira

a historic estate now led by Johannes Hasselbach

Dirty and Rowdy, Cuvee Herve, 2018 CS20230901 The standard bearer for traditionallyCuvee Herve is Hardy Wallace's tribute bottling, a Mourvedre drawn from Dirty & Rowdy's roster of old, organically farmed California sites. Wallace made his name mastering Mourvedre, a grape that's tricky to ripen without going heavy, and his whole answer is whole cluster fermentation, foot crushing, native yeast and neutral vessel aging to keep the fruit lifted rather than jammy. It's bottled the way all his reds are: unfined, unfiltered, with just a