We’re just starting to see the first fruits of 2018’s unusually fuss-free vintage from the masterly J-P Robinot. This is strikingly lean Pineau d’Aunis (clocking in at just 11%) that stills manages to showcase this variety’s peppery, savoury fruit with aplomb.
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.
We’re just starting to see the first fruits of 2018’s unusually fuss-free vintage from the masterly J-P Robinot. This is strikingly lean Pineau d’Aunis (clocking in at just 11%) that stills manages to showcase this variety’s peppery, savoury fruit with aplomb.
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.
