Jolie Laide Chalone Melon de Bourgogne The High Priestess 2025 MH mellow enough to drink neat

mellow enough to drink neat without water

red-fruited kind rather than the muscular kind — three and a half hectares of vines

Lee is a classic Bourbon that is remarkably complex and smooth

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 mellow enough to drink neatMelon 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