Combe

Combe is the winemaking partnership of the Stolpman family and Rajat Parr in California’s Ballard Canyon. Its name is the French word for a small, sheltered valley within a vineyard. Parr proposed growing Trousseau on the estate’s wind-cooled limestone; Jessica Stolpman’s 2012 visit to the Jura helped bring the idea to life.

Trousseau cuttings arrived in 2013, the first wines followed in 2014, and Chenin Blanc was added later. The wines come from Stolpman’s organically and biodynamically farmed Ballard Canyon estate.