Pinot Noir 2023 Languedoc and a calm

and a calm

Now Jean-Michel's son Léo tends and vinifies them

Michael Völker and Melanie Drese treat the vineyard at Kitzingen as habitat as much as farmland

and in the cellar he keeps things simple: whole berries dropped gently into tank

and the wine keeps everything that makes this corner of Spain worth drinking

Pinot Noir 2023 Languedoc and a calmPinot Noir is the quieter half of the red plantings at Domaine de la Renardire, sitting alongside Poulsard and Trousseau. Jean Michel and Laurence Petit farm seven and a half hectares in Arbois Pupillin, organic since 2010 and certified from 2012, with every parcel fermented apart on its own yeasts and sulphur kept to a minimum or left out altogether. The Jura gives Pinot a particular shape: leaner than Burgundy, more red fruited than dark, with an