The phrase 'natural wine legend' is sometimes overused, but the moniker certainly applies to Jean-Pierre Robinot. Having founded the famous Paris wine bar L’Ange Vin and France’s premier Natural Wine journal Le Rouge et le Blanc, he now makes incredible wine in the Loire across two appellations, Jasnières and the Coteaux-du-Loir. Farming is biodynamic, vinification is slow and patient but always worth the wait.

Chenin Blanc from vines around forty years old, pressed straight to old barrels for fifteen months of élevage. From a cooler year, this is absolutely electric, with pristine stone fruits seasoned with the unmistakable imprint of flint. Displaying the kind of tightrope balance we find in the very best examples of the grape, it no doubt has a long life ahead.