Charme White 2022

Charme White 2022,

Jean-Pierre Robinot - L’Opéra des Vins

Charme, aptly named, is an organic and natural dry white wine from the Loire Valley (Jasnières and Coteaux-du-Loir), classified as a Vin de France. It is the result of the talent of Jean-Pierre Robinot and his Chenin vines.

In the Vineyard and in the Winery

Charme by Jean-Pierre Robinot is made from 100% twenty-five-year-old Chenin vines, grown organically on mineral-rich soils: siliceous, clayey (red clay), and limestone. The harvest is directly pressed and ferments spontaneously with indigenous yeasts for a year in oak barrels. Aging lasts twelve months, also in oak barrels, followed by three months in vats before bottling without filtration.

Tasting

Charme 2022 offers pure fruitiness and beautiful maturity with remarkable acidity; let's call it "a little taste of comeback." This exquisite organic Loire Chenin offers beautiful notes of citrus and spices: white fruits, honey, lemon peel and dried fruits on the back of the palate. Elegant, mineral, deep, fine and full of vivacity, a little exotic on the edges, it will express itself best after an hour of decanting. Pair it with charming foods: oysters and shellfish, White Meats, refined seafood, for example incorporated into a risotto.

Learn more about Jean-Pierre Robinot

Anyone interested in natural wine in France has crossed paths with Jean-Pierre Robinot and has never forgotten this smiling, bouncing figure. Although it has not yet been proven that all wines resemble their winemaker (a study to be undertaken), the organic and natural wines produced by Jean-Pierre, warm, friendly and luminous, are in the image of their creator. After running the wine bar L’Ange Vin for nearly fifteen years, on rue Richard-Lenoir in Paris, Jean-Pierre returned to his native Chahaignes, a small village in the south of Sarthe. His dream is to acquire his vineyard and make natural wines, without added sulfites.

Great terroirs of the Loir and tuffeau cellars

Jean-Pierre therefore reclaims hillside wasteland, 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 des vins, he vinifies organic grapes purchased from local winemakers. A member of the S.A.I.N.S. natural viticulture association, Jean-Pierre Robinot practices strict organic viticulture practices, without chemical weeding or the addition of sulfites. The soil is worked and amended with natural composts. All harvests, carried out at maturity on healthy grapes, are done by hand. The location and climate favor noble rot.