Les Vins Pirouettes - Alsace Eros De Raphael 2023 750mL (13% ABV)

 35% Riesling, 30% Gewürztraminer, 25% Auxerrois and 10% Sylvaner. Biodynamically grown in granite, sand and clay limestone soil and macerated for 10 days. Notes of juicy peach, mineral and great acidity. No added SO2.

cultivated and vinified by Raphaël Marchal, Domaine de L’Envol, Ingersheim

Vineyard: granite, sand, clay-limestone, organically and biodynamically grown

Grapes: 35% Riesling, 30% Gewurztraminer, 25% Auxerrois, 10 % Sylvaner

Making of: Grapes are hand-harvested, sorted in the vineyard, destemmed, and then macerated together for about 10 days. The juice is then fermented with indigenous yeast and zero sulfur in stainless steel for 7 days, rested for cca 8 months in stainless steel tanks, bottled with zero addition of sulfur (total SO2 16ppm). Unfined and unfiltered.

Personality: Generous and very easy to drink orange wine, just like its older cousin Eros de Vincent!

• Christian Binner, the renowned winemaker with more than 20 years of experience, launched this project to help respectful growers in his native Alsace to make and sell soulful natural wines at friendly prices
• It’s an open association of an ever-growing number of winemakers around Alsace, all working organically or biodynamically
• All the wines are made in their respective cellars by the winemakers themselves, fostered by the project’s enologists
• The name « Pirouette » symbolizes the fun they’re having with this movement, but also the mastery & knowhow needed to execute a good honest wine
  
• Since 2023, the Lycée Viticole de Rouffach (winemaking school in the village of Rouffach) joined the project, marking an important initiative: natural winemaking is thus putting its foot in the door of the official enological curriculum in France!

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