Fish Grilled in Banana Leaves with Chile-Lime Sauce.

"'Baby fat,' if you wish, is what the California weather can give you," Melka told me.It's the kind of love-hate relationship that all French winemakers have with the California sun, which can over-ripen grapes, unlike in Bordeaux where it's typically cool and rainy.

"It's like when you see a baby photo of a toddler, and those wrinkles and folds start to go away, and you begin to see the framework of the real kid.I think that's the same thing for the wines.".In its youth, upon entering toddler-hood, a Melka Cabernet reveals sinewy, ripe, dark fruit flavors and silken textures framed by ultra-fine tannins that lap about in waves of salty minerals, turned-earth, and expensive French cedar.

It just gets better from there with proper aging.How does he do it?

Was it the soil?

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