2024 | Monte Rio Cellars The Bench Clements Hills | Lodi San Salvatore It is a medium-bodied and

It is a medium-bodied and balanced wine

with richness and opulence masking powerful tannins

extrovert and Mediterranean

The nose is deep

flavors of green apple unfold with crisp precision

2024 | Monte Rio Cellars The Bench Clements Hills | Lodi San Salvatore It is a medium-bodied andThis offering from Monte Rio Cellars is not a traditional Vermentino. It spends some time on the skins, giving it more texture and giving the wine more richness and fullness on the palate. While some might think of this as a natural wine, it is a low intervention project from a meticulously farmed vineyard. The fruit is highly aromatic with nectarine, melon, pink grapefruit, dried chicory, and sedimentary rock on the nose, and the palate is racy