Origin: Loire, France
ABV: 13%
Grapes: Pineau d'Aunis

A powerfull interstellar Pineau d'Aunis from 80-110 hundred year old vines. A wine to buy a few bottles and age in the cellar to enjoy the evolution of this incredible nature power. Galactical wine.

Jean-Pierre Robinot is a legend! His wines are served in the best wine bars in Paris, Copenhagen and New York and around the world. He had one of the first natural wine bars in Paris, called l’Ange Vin, and, while living in Paris also was one of the founders of Rouge et Blanc, still one of France’s most influential wine magazines. But he eventually sold the bar and in 2000 bought a vineyard, just out of the village of Chahaignes, where he now lives. It’s also where he grew up.

This is almost midway between Tours and Le Mans in the Loire Valley, although more specifically in the Loir Valley (the Loir is a tributary of the Sarthe River which eventually flows into the Loire River. He has about 10 hectares, split across several locations. Some of the vineyards would be classified as Jasnières if he worked within the appellation rules.

He and his wife Noella began by buying small plots of old vines and also planting new patches of Chenin Blanc and Pinot d’Aunis (an exciting local variety of red grape). 

All his wines are fermented naturally (often very slowly over more than a year) and his still wines in old barrels in humid cellars cut directly into the hills many years ago, some so old that it’s hard to believe that they stay together. He is patient, holding wines in barrel until he believes they are ready, which can sometimes be more than 5 years.