Jolie Laide Chalone Melon de Bourgogne The High Priestess 2025 MH The result is a truly

The result is a truly handmade sloe gin that is subtle

a completely different animal: mostly Sauvignon Blanc with a little Semillon

fermented naturally for about two weeks and bottled without fuss or forced stabilization

crafted from younger Merlot vines on Pomerol's central plateau in sustainably farmed gravel-clay soils

Jolie Laide Chalone Melon de Bourgogne The High Priestess 2025 MH The result is a trulyMelon de Bourgogne is the grape of Muscadet, and finding it in California is genuinely rare. The Schultzes source theirs from Rodnick Farm in the Chalone AVA, a high elevation south facing site planted in 1985 that overlooks the Salinas Valley. Warm days, cool nights, and a coastal pull give the wine a mineral spine that nods toward its Loire homeland while still tasting unmistakably Californian. Native ferment in neutral cooperage keeps everything