Jolie Laide Suisun Valley Pinot Gris Queen of Swords 2025 EGLY24 The Mâconnais isn't blessed with

The Mâconnais isn't blessed with the great terroirs of northern Burgundy

Aromas of fresh spices: pepper

Freisa is an ancestral Piedmontese variety

a site that gives cut and minerality rather than tropical fruit

but pulled taut by all that mineral energy

Jolie Laide Suisun Valley Pinot Gris Queen of Swords 2025 EGLY24 The Mâconnais isn't blessed withPinot Gris that thinks it might be a rose, or maybe an orange wine, or maybe just itself. Scott Schultz pulls fruit from a single organic Suisun Valley vineyard southeast of Napa, picks early, and does a two day whole cluster cold soak that pulls a delicate pink hue and just enough phenolic grip out of the skins. Native fermentation in a mix of neutral puncheon and stainless steel preserves the aromatics; six months on lees in neutral cooperage adds