Pineau d'Aunis is one of our favourite grapes and no one does it better than Monsieur Robinot. The grapes spiritual home is in these northern reaches of the Loire and this particular wine, from a warmer harvest, aged for two years in old barrels before release, is heady with dark fruits and a fistfuls of spice.
There’s nothing we can say about Jean-Pierre Robinot that hasn’t been said before. He’s a guy who has been at the forefront of the scene for decades, opening a seminal bistrot in Paris, starting a journal on natural wines and finally moving back to the village where he grew up in the very north of the Loire Valley to produce kaleidoscopic takes on Chenin Blanc and Pineau d’Aunis that are amongst our favourite wines on earth.
Pineau d'Aunis is one of our favourite grapes and no one does it better than Monsieur Robinot. The grapes spiritual home is in these northern reaches of the Loire and this particular wine, from a warmer harvest, aged for two years in old barrels before release, is heady with dark fruits and a fistfuls of spice.
There’s nothing we can say about Jean-Pierre Robinot that hasn’t been said before. He’s a guy who has been at the forefront of the scene for decades, opening a seminal bistrot in Paris, starting a journal on natural wines and finally moving back to the village where he grew up in the very north of the Loire Valley to produce kaleidoscopic takes on Chenin Blanc and Pineau d’Aunis that are amongst our favourite wines on earth.
