GRAPES: PINOT GRIS, RIESLING, AUXERROIS
SKIN CONTACT: 25 DAYS
REGION: ALSACE, FRANCE
Vinification method: Les Vins Pirouettes is a project launched by famed winemaker Christian Binner. His goal is to produce affordable, delicious natural wines, and at the same time help grape growers in Alsace move away from selling their grapes to cooperatives and towards making and bottling natural wines. Each cuvée is made at a young grower’s winery, where they supply the grapes and Christian supplies his 20 years of natural winemaking expertise - not to mention his marketing and distribution savviness. Each cuvée featureS the name of the grower on the bottle.
For "Eros," the pinot gris, riesling, and auxerrois grapes are hand harvested and spontaneously fermented on the skins for 25 days with wild yeast. They then undergo 8 months of aging on their lees in foudres (large oak casks). The wine is bottled unfined, unfiltered, and with zero sulfites.
Tasting notes: light-bodied, citrus, baked apples, tropical fruit, chamomile, anise
Pairing: stuffed zucchini blossoms
Mix and match 3, 6 or 12 bottles!
