Philip Togni, Ca' Togni Black Muscat, 1997 more spirits SKUs and blackberry fruit layered with

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Mauro Marengo’s 2024 bottling captures the variety’s hallmark juiciness and gentle tannins in a sleek

Philip Togni, Ca' Togni Black Muscat, 1997 more spirits SKUs and blackberry fruit layered withA genuine Napa curiosity: a sweet red dessert wine from Black Hamburg (a. k. a. Black Muscat), thought to be the only planting of the grape in the valley. Philip Togni farms it on a quarter acre at his estate near the top of Spring Mountain, the same legendary site behind his ageworthy Cabernet. The wine is grapey and perfumed in the Muscat way but built on a dark, red fruited frame, sweet without being cloying. A 1997 like this has had decades to