Clos du Tue-Boeuf Pineau d`Aunis 2024 no ups Though this may not be

Though this may not be the most flashy Scotch this classic punches way above it's price

and Chantal Forthun has run the cellar since 2012 — and the wines have only sharpened

all crunchy red fruit with a little pomegranate spice

and lightly toasted baking spices like clove and Ceylon cinnamon

where cool wind spills down from the woods above the village and stretches the growing season out

Clos du Tue-Boeuf Pineau d`Aunis 2024 no ups Though this may not bePineau d'Aunis is the Loire's secret handshake a peppery, light bodied native grape that almost disappeared in the 20th century before producers like Thierry Puzelat dragged it back into the conversation. Clos du Tue Boeuf, the Puzelat family estate in Les Montils, has been at the heart of the natural wine movement since the mid 90s, and this Pineau d'Aunis comes from old vines (some over a century) farmed by Valerie Forgues. Fermentation is native,