Pax Wine Cellars, California Chenin Blanc "Helios", 2025 wholesale-only Monfalletto is the estate cuvée

Monfalletto is the estate cuvée drawn from that home vineyard

and Gruner Veltliner for a wine that's both fresh and creamy

drinking in its tertiary phase

One of the Loire's most serious red wines

framing the wine’s core of fresh acidity and mineral depth

Pax Wine Cellars, California Chenin Blanc "Helios", 2025 wholesale-only Monfalletto is the estate cuvéePax Mahle made his name on profound California Syrah, but Helios is his love letter to the Loire: a Chenin Blanc with cutting freshness and a honeyed, waxy core. The fruit is whole cluster pressed from three organically farmed California sites, from Amador County's Lyman Ranch to the Santa Cruz Mountains and Alder Springs up north. Fermented in stainless steel and Stockinger barrels, it stays mineral and taut rather than oaky. This is a serious, food