Auguste 2018 Hannes und Claudiu Pinot Noir is the quieter

Pinot Noir is the quieter half of the red plantings at Domaine de la Renardière

Expect dried apricot

They have run Ormiale together since 2007

red-fruited with a peppery lift and tannins that barely register at all

filtration or added sulphur

Auguste 2018 Hannes und Claudiu Pinot Noir is the quieterAuguste is the outlier in the Sous le Vgtal range, the one red among the Muscats, made from avgoustiatis, an old Greek variety most of the wine world has never heard of. Sous le Vgtal is what happened when Jason Ligas and Patrick Bouju took their shared instinct for living wine to Samos, a Greek island a mile off the Turkish coast, and set about restoring its volcanic slopes with permaculture, herbs and biodynamic care rather than chemistry. Fermented