Dirty and Rowdy, Cuvee Herve, 2018 CS20230901 and fermented spontaneously in stainless

and fermented spontaneously in stainless steel with zero oak intervention

and distinctly Madeira

savory herbs

so its fruit has mellowed into something more savory and complex

the wine has traded fresh sweetness for tertiary complexity: dried fig

Dirty and Rowdy, Cuvee Herve, 2018 CS20230901 and fermented spontaneously in stainlessCuvee 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