Jolie Laide California Red Blend Glou d'Etat 2024 CS20231031 Harmonious Mineral Barolo with Scents

Harmonious Mineral Barolo with Scents of flowers and delicate spice

Perfect for the perfect Negroni

and juniper—create a gin that's distinctly French in personality: aromatic

It's the brief period of ageing in oak casks that gives it its amber colour and its characteristic notes of vanilla

in keeping with the biodynamic-influenced philosophy

Jolie Laide California Red Blend Glou d'Etat 2024 CS20231031 Harmonious Mineral Barolo with ScentsScott and Jenny Schultz's Glou d'Etat is exactly what the name promises: a glug glug red built for joy, not gravity. The Schultzes are Sebastopol based micro producers (just 3,000 cases total across the whole lineup) who focus on rare and overlooked grapes farmed organically across Northern California. The blend shifts each vintage but typically leans on Valdiguie, Mourvedre, Grenache, and a stable of oddballs like Cinsault and Cabernet Pfeffer. Whole