A warmer vintage here, but no less elegance and vitality in what’s the absolute benchmark wine for this oft-overlooked Loire Valley variety. Structurally complex, endlessly deep and packed to the gills with fruit and that beguiling white pepper 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.
A warmer vintage here, but no less elegance and vitality in what’s the absolute benchmark wine for this oft-overlooked Loire Valley variety. Structurally complex, endlessly deep and packed to the gills with fruit and that beguiling white pepper 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.
