Location - Contra Costa
Varietal - Pinot Gris
Alcohol - 12.2%
Size - 375 ml
The "Gris" in the Pinot Gris refers to the color of the grape skins. After foot trodding, we let the juice rest on skin for 3 days to gain a rosy color, lush texture, and overall deliciousness.
Winemaker:
Scott Schultz is a Chicago native who began his career by working front of the house in several top restaurants. Following a stint in Thomas Keller's Las Vegas Bouchon he made his way to the sister restaurant in Yountville. From there the logical step was out of the restaurant and into the cellar and in 2010 he took a position working for Pax Mahle. It was there he started experimenting with Trousseau Gris and Melon de Bourgogne and other more obscure varietals on his own.
Jolie-Laide’s wines are captivating because they are anything but typical: using lesser planted varietals like Gamay and Valdiguié grown on vineyards at the fringes of the typical wine regions. In style, his wines are made with minimal intervention and classic technique (whole-cluster, skin-fermented, foot tread) and each year brings a new label from artists that inspire him and seem to fit the vintage.
