Stanley's Wine Class - Essential California North Coast Wines - April 29, 2026, 6-7:30pm Armagnac with earth and spice aromas

with earth and spice aromas that all provide signals that this will be a weighty drink

sharp-edged and expressive rosé with strawberry and salted watermelon

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

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Stanley's Wine Class - Essential California North Coast Wines - April 29, 2026, 6-7:30pm Armagnac with earth and spice aromasThe 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