Pineau d'Aunis
Adonis 2024
La Grapperie

Grape Variety: Pineau d'Aunis

Producer: La Grapperie (Renaud Guettier)

Region: Coteaux-de-Loire, France

Wild Scale: 4/5

Vegan friendly wine

12% alcohol

Winemaking: Organic Pineau d'Aunis grapes from different plots were harvested by hand. Whole bunch fermentation with indigenous yeast. Aged for 1 year in old barrels before being bottled with no fining, filtration or added sulphur. 

This Wine: Natural red wine with a light body. After a cool 2024, the resulting wine shows all the delicate beauty of the Pineau d'Aunis variety. Full of white pepper, perfume and raspberries with balanced, fresh acidity. Tannins are already nice and soft. Delicious! 

Notes on the Winemaker: La Grapperie is the cult Coteaux du Loir project of agro-engineer Renaud Guettier, who began rescuing tiny, ancient vineyard plots around Bueil-en-Touraine in 2004. Tending over 25 fragmented micro-parcels by hand and horse, Renaud works organically with some of the Loire's oldest  vines. In the cellar, which is a network of cool, subterranean tuffeau limestone caves, he practices an uncompromisingly patient, low-intervention philosophy. He relies on spontaneous fermentations, no additives, and long, slow aging in old neutral barrels, often maturing wines on their fine lees for several years (and occasionally experimenting with sous voile oxidative aging) without fining, filtration, or added sulphur. Working primarily with Chenin Blanc and the notoriously fickle Pineau d'Aunis, his lineup spans from vibrant, peppery reds to deep, highly complex, age-worthy, mineral-charged whites that showcase the singular tension of clay and flint over limestone.