Jolie Laide California Trousseau Noir Blend 2024 Reasonable Cellar Anisette combines nobility with charm

Anisette combines nobility with charm

and Sansho peppercorn berries

all dense apricot and stone fruit shot through with the natural acidity that mountain altitude brings

with lush tropical fruit and a slight nutty

but at 923 meters in the mountains above Valencia it becomes something else entirely

Jolie Laide California Trousseau Noir Blend 2024 Reasonable Cellar Anisette combines nobility with charmCalifornia Trousseau on its own is rare enough; a Trousseau dominant blend rounded out with Cabernet Pfeffer, Gamay, and Poulsard is essentially a unicorn. Scott Schultz built Jolie Laide around exactly this kind of varietal curiosity, working with a small handful of organic growers across Northern California. The grapes go in whole cluster, get foot crushed, ferment with native yeast, and rest in neutral oak. The result is delicate and airy with