Dirty and Rowdy, Cuvee Herve, 2018 SPcount0226 and a sun-and-spice character that's

and a sun-and-spice character that's unmistakably Mediterranean

the appellation was down to a handful of hectares of Viognier

memorable experience

where decades of root depth translate into more concentration

twice distilled in small stills

Dirty and Rowdy, Cuvee Herve, 2018 SPcount0226 and a sun-and-spice character that'sCuvee 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