Producer: Jean-Pierre Robinot - Les Vignes de l’Ange Vin

Jean-Pierre Robinot - Les Vignes de l’Ange Vin

A well-known figure in the world of natural wine, Jean-Pierre Robinot produces Chenin and Pineau d'Aunis in the Jasnières and Coteaux-du-Loir appellations. His wines are well-crafted, joyful, luminous, and elegant.

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Jean-Pierre Robinot - Les Vignes de l’Ange Vin

L'Opéra des Vins Concerto Red 2021

€45,00

Magnum L'As des Années Folles White 2015
Jean-Pierre Robinot - Les Vignes de l’Ange Vin

Magnum L'As des Années Folles White 2015

€105,00

Magnum Fetembulles White 2015
Jean-Pierre Robinot - Les Vignes de l’Ange Vin

Magnum Fetembulles White 2015

€103,00

Magnum Les années folles Sparkling White 2010
Jean-Pierre Robinot - Les Vignes de l’Ange Vin

Magnum Les années folles Sparkling White 2010

€160,00

Jean Pierre Robinot Juliette vin nature Blanc 2015 1
Jean-Pierre Robinot - Les Vignes de l’Ange Vin

Juliette Blanc 2015

€115,00

Fetembulles 2011 natural sparkling white
Jean-Pierre Robinot - Les Vignes de l’Ange Vin

Fetembulles 2011 natural sparkling white

€69,90

L'as des années folles Rosé Pétillant 2021
Jean-Pierre Robinot

L'as des années folles Rosé Pétillant 2021

€51,50

Bistrologie Blanc 2023
Jean-Pierre Robinot

Bistrologie Blanc 2023

€41,50

Lumière de silex Blanc 2023
Jean-Pierre Robinot

Lumière de silex Blanc 2023

€47,50

Lumière des sens Rouge 2022
Jean-Pierre Robinot

Lumière des sens Rouge 2022

€47,50

Regard Rouge 2022
Jean-Pierre Robinot

Regard Rouge 2022

€47,50

Concerto Rouge 2020
Jean-Pierre Robinot

Concerto Rouge 2020

€51,50

Charme Blanc 2023
Jean-Pierre Robinot

Charme Blanc 2023

€47,50

Camille Rouge 2022
Jean-Pierre Robinot

Camille Rouge 2022

€178,00

Where?

Chahaignes is a village in the southern Sarthe region, in the Loir Valley, on the borders of Anjou and Touraine. Jean-Pierre was born and raised there, and left at the age of seventeen. At twenty-two, he discovered wine and never left it again. This began with L'Ange Vin, a wine bar on Rue Richard-Lenoir in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, which he ran for nearly fifteen years. But his real dream was to acquire a vineyard and make sulfur-free wines. So he returned to Chahaignes, reclaiming uncultivated hillside land on prime terroirs, as well as troglodyte cellars dug into the tufa rock. 2002 would be his first vintage. At the same time, through his wine trading business, under the L’Opéra du vin brand, he vinifies grapes purchased from local winegrowers.

Jean-Pierre Robinot is recognizable by his smiling, bouncy figure. It's clear that while it has not yet been proven that all wines resemble their winemaker (a study still to be undertaken), the wines produced by Jean-Pierre, warm, friendly, and luminous, are a reflection of their creator.

Terroir and Soils

"We are," explains Jean-Pierre, "on the edge of a very large forest planted by Colbert, which often stops storms. Our vines are on steep hillsides overlooking our river, the Loir. They are planted on complex soils: yellow clay, flint, and limestone." These soils were once covered by the sea, and many fossils are found there. This gives the wines a decidedly saline note. The soil is cultivated and drains rainwater well, but the vines don't suffer too much from drought. At night, the temperature drops very quickly, allowing for very cold grapes to be harvested in the morning. All these elements, Jean-Pierre explains, make for elegant wines.

Plots and Grape Varieties

About ten hectares in Coteaux du Loir, six and a half hectares in Coteaux du Loir-Jasnières. Almost the entire vineyard faces south-southeast, with the classic grape varieties of the region: Chenin for the Jasnières and the white Coteaux-du-Loir, Pineau d'Aunis for the reds. "Chenin," says Jean-Pierre, "is the great grape variety of the Loire. It suits us perfectly, because we can make everything with it using ancestral methods: from great dry wines, semi-dry wines, to sweet wines." » Pineau d'Aunis or Chenin Noir is a very old, vigorous and fertile Loire grape variety. Until recently, it was believed to have been selected ten centuries ago by the monks of the Aunis Priory in Anjou. It was recently discovered that it originated in Charente and has been planted in the region for nearly two thousand years.

Growing Methods

Jean-Pierre Robinot practices strict organic viticulture at the Domaine de l'Ange Vin, without chemical weed control. The soil is worked and amended with natural compost. All harvests, carried out at maturity on healthy grapes, are done by hand. The location and climate favor noble rot.

Vinification

All wines are free of added sulfites, without any additives, and unfiltered. The Pineau d'Aunis (red) wines are never destemmed and ferment for a long time, sometimes a month, with regular punching down. They complete their fermentation in barrels on lees for at least a year. The whites are never macerated but pressed directly and slowly, and aged for at least twelve months in oak barrels. Jean-Pierre practices controlled oxidation extensively. The sparkling natural wines are aged for two to three years on slats and disgorged on the fly. The wines rest in cellars dug into the tuffeau stone fifty meters underground: the temperature in winter is 10°C and, in summer, never exceeds 13°C, even when it is 40°C outside.

The Wines

"This is my grandfather's wine!" people often say to Jean-Pierre when tasting his wines for the first time. The long malolactic fermentation in barrels on lees helps explain the distinctive taste of its Chenin whites, worked and complex: a lovely fullness on the palate, fat, texture and often notes of candied white fruits (pear, quince, apple), honey, citrus and white flowers. Gentle oxidation is not uncommon and residual sugars are always relevant. Among the 100% Chenin white cuvées: Le Charme du Loir, Charme, L’Iris, Bistrologie. Sparkling wines: Fêtembulles, Les Années folles, l’As des Années folles. Reds: Regard, Lumières des Sens, Nocturne. Camille Robinot is a great cuvée of old Pineau d’Aunis vines. These wines, powerful and structured under their apparent carefreeness, can be kept long enough to silence those who claim that “nature” cannot be kept. These are multifaceted wines: no two vintages are alike, yet the unity of style throughout is undeniable.

Jean-Pierre is also a photographer and uses slow exposure to create all the labels for his bottles.

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