Les Grandes Vignes, Pineau d'Aunis, 2024 SPAINCOUNT0125 Lemon peel

Lemon peel

Apollo’s Praise Chardonnay “Lahoma Vineyard” 2024 is a single-vineyard Chardonnay from the Lahoma Vineyard on Seneca Lake in New York’s Finger Lakes region

Roque Le Mayne's vineyards sit on argilo-calcareous (clay-limestone) soil that promotes complexity and balance

This steep grand cru above the village of Bockenau in the Nahe is almost pure blue Devonian slate

and utterly classic

Les Grandes Vignes, Pineau d'Aunis, 2024 SPAINCOUNT0125 Lemon peelA superb summer sipper that lets committed red wine drinkers keep their glass while everyone else reaches for rose. Pineau d'Aunis is a Loire grape that was once wine geek esoterica and is finally getting its due, prized for a wild signature of ripe red cherry, watermelon rind, and freshly cracked pepper. This one comes from Domaine Les Grandes Vignes, a Vaillant family estate in eastern Anjou, Demeter certified biodynamic since 2008, on complex soils