Jolie Laide Chalone Melon de Bourgogne The High Priestess 2025 MH and even riddles the bottles

and even riddles the bottles by hand

A wine of nearly indescribable finesse

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

Eleven months is a substantial finishing period—long enough for the Chardonnay character to genuinely integrate rather than just coat the surface

Lee is a classic Bourbon that is remarkably complex and smooth

Jolie Laide Chalone Melon de Bourgogne The High Priestess 2025 MH and even riddles the bottlesMelon 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