Les Trésors

Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Les Garennes Blanc 2017

Frédéric Cossard
This Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru comes from Chardonnays grown on the plot that gave its name to the cuvée, between 230 and 250 meters above sea level. The terroir, facing west-southeast, is based on brown marl and clay-limestone soils, sometimes directly on the limestone rock. The soil structure is fine, clay-silt. After direct pressing of the grapes, the wine is aged for about a year in barrels. The wine is typically Puligny: buttery, mineral, complex, and layered.
A natural wine with no added sulfites.

Pairs with: Lobster, Oysters and Shellfish, Chicken Stew, Cooked Fish

Antenet Cahors Rouge 1998

Danis dans la Vigne 

Une pépite de cave, entre héritage familial et profondeur du temps

Voici un vin rare, presque confidentiel, qui raconte une histoire avant même d’être ouvert. Antenet 1998 est une cuvée unique, vinifiée il y a plus de vingt-cinq ans par le père de Danis, l’actuel vigneron du domaine Danis dans la vigne. Ce Cahors d’un autre temps, issu à 100 % de Malbec, a été élaboré dans le respect des traditions et avec une philosophie déjà très proche du naturel : courte macération, élevage en cuve béton pendant deux ans, aucun maquillage œnologique.

Le sol argilo-calcaire typique du vignoble de Cahors donne ici un vin de garde par excellence, aux tanins polis par le temps et à l’aromatique d’une grande richesse. À 12 % d’alcool seulement, il défie les standards modernes par son équilibre, sa fraîcheur et sa longévité exceptionnelle.

Un vin profond, patiné, chargé de mémoire

Après plus de deux décennies de repos, Antenet 1998 révèle une robe grenat tuilée, aux reflets bruns. Le nez, complexe et envoûtant, dévoile des arômes de fruits noirs compotés, de pruneau, de tabac blond, avec une pointe de sous-bois. En bouche, la matière est fondue, ample, d’une suavité rare. Ce vin évoque une époque révolue, mais reste d’une gourmandise saisissante, parfait sur des viandes rôties, du gibier ou un plat riche en umami.

Servi à 16-18°C, sans besoin de carafage, ce vin est prêt à être dégusté. C’est une archive liquide, un trésor familial, à découvrir comme on lirait une lettre du passé.

Vin paillé Red 2012

Marie and Vincent Tricot

Marie and Vincent Tricot's Vin de paille is undoubtedly a curiosity: it's a sweet wine made from 100% Auvergne Gamay, entirely organic and natural, made like a Vin de paille from the Jura. The harvest is dried on straw in an attic before pressing. We're not used to Gamay vinified this way, or even red wine vinified this way.

It's an experiment, but the result more than justifies the boldness. Drying on straw concentrates the sugar in the grape berries and accentuates the flavors. Only a drop remains in each berry, but what a drop! Sweet, caressing, syrupy, complex, this Vin de paille is a delight. Its color is not a pure red but an amber, and the nose is a veritable basket of slightly jammy fruits: plum, prune, raisins, strawberry. It is possible that a refermentation takes place in the bottle, which can give a sparkling attack to this wine, but it disappears quickly. On the palate, a delicious sweetness, lots of strawberry and pleasantness. Very easy to drink.

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Among the generation of Auvergne winemakers who, at the dawn of the 21st century, are resurrecting the vineyards of this beautiful volcanic province of the Massif Central in organic and natural ways, Marie and Vincent Tricot are pioneers, and their name is well known to those who have long loved natural wine. After a varied winegrowing journey that took them from Beaujolais to Chile and from Chile to Costières-de-Nîmes, they landed in Auvergne, at the foot of the Puy de Dôme, in the commune of Orcet where they took over Claude Prugnard's vineyard, a land that had not seen the slightest chemical input for around thirty years. The estate is located on a hillside, on the left bank of the Allier, in a volcanic clay-limestone area neighboring the vineyards of Châteaugay, Chanturgue and Corent. They acquired it in 2003 and, since then, have been making wines from Auvergne Gamay, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, with a little Sauvignon Blanc and Muscat. These rare and sought-after wines are mainly sold directly. They have a straight and flamboyant profile, and express themselves with as much character as simplicity.

Juliette Blanc 2015,

Jean-Pierre Robinot
One hundred percent Chenin, Juliette (named after Juliette Robinot, the winemaker's daughter) is dry and beautifully fresh. It is a remarkable expression of the grape variety, produced from vines that are over a hundred years old. The harvest is late, marked by botrytis (noble rot). After direct pressing into barrels, the wine ferments and ages for over six years in the same container. A rare wine to cherish.

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Anyone interested in natural wine in France has inevitably come across Jean-Pierre Robinot at some point and has never forgotten this smiling, bouncy figure. It is clear that while it has not yet been proven that all wines resemble their winemaker (a study to be undertaken), the vintages produced by Jean-Pierre, warm, friendly, and luminous, are in the image of their creator. After running the wine bar L’Ange Vin on rue Richard-Lenoir in the 11th arrondissement of Paris for nearly fifteen years, Jean-Pierre returned to his native Chahaignes, a small village in the south of Sarthe, on the borders of Anjou and Touraine. His dream is to acquire his own vineyard and make sulfur-free wines. He reclaims uncultivated hillside land on great terroirs, as well as troglodyte cellars dug into the tuffeau. 2002 will be his first vintage. At the same time, under the brand L’Opéra du vin, he vinifies grapes purchased from local winegrowers. Jean-Pierre Robinot practices demanding organic viticulture, without chemical weed control. The soil is worked and amended using natural composts. All harvests, carried out at maturity on healthy grapes, are done by hand. The location and climate favor noble rot.