Stanley's Wine Class - Essential California North Coast Wines - April 29, 2026, 6-7:30pm Armagnac waxy salinity and just a

waxy salinity and just a whisper of smoke on the finish

Orchard fruit and citrus with subtle florals and a clean mineral backbone

Light spice with great fruit - dried strawberry and black cherry

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Stanley's Wine Class - Essential California North Coast Wines - April 29, 2026, 6-7:30pm Armagnac waxy salinity and just aThe North Coast put California wine on the map in the 1970s. But today, Napa and Sonoma have a reputation problem. Thirty years of trophy bottles, inflated scores, and paint by numbers winemaking have made it easy to write off the whole region. That story isnt wrong, but its incomplete. Our understanding of North Coast terroir has matured, and there's a quieter group of small producers farming organically, working with minimal intervention in the