Deru Wine Co Naches Heights Dry Riesling 2024 070226CHILL A whisky that lives up

A whisky that lives up to its name

Justin Willett's appellation-wide Chardonnay is a kind of greatest-hits compilation of Santa Barbara's best Chardonnay vineyards — fruit from Bien Nacido

This is his entry Saumur Blanc

with a quick cereal milk finish that has a sneaky umami departure

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Deru Wine Co Naches Heights Dry Riesling 2024 070226CHILL A whisky that lives upDeru is the project of Caleb Taft, a longtime SF Bay Area wine and restaurant veteran (Camino, Nopa, Nari) who decamped to Washington to make honest, soulful wines the natural way. This dry Riesling comes from the Naches Heights AVA, a young, high elevation growing area on million year old andesite bedrock above the Yakima Valley cooler and wetter than most of Washington wine country, and a genuine sweet spot for Riesling. The wine is bone dry, all