Marc Pesnot "Coeur De Raisin" Blanc 2024

Marc Pesnot "Coeur De Raisin" Blanc 2024Press 4 Mix White June July 2026 Direct Press Selection Marc Pesnot bought his father's small winemaking operation in the Muscadet appellation back in 1979, and he will be retiring soon, but he has become one of a very small group of natural winemakers in the mostly industrial wine growing area near Nantes. "I used to make uninteresting, bland wines with added commercial yeast," he says. "In the late 1990s, I encountered the vins naturels, and it was

practice polyculture to nurture and enrich the ecosystem of their vineyard

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Direct Press Selection • January 2023

Alluvial loams

Technicolor

gulpable red

and delicate florality

30 day maceration and 22 months aging in Slavonian oak

fermented in steel tank and bottled with zero sulfur

a single vineyard planted in 1972 in the Pago Montealegre

bringing structure and notes of wet horse and damp earth

but also to the colder climate at the limits of where grapes can ripen in Europe