Jean-Pierre Robinot l'opera des vins 'Fetembulles' 2023 Loire Valley, France

Grape: Chenin Blanc

Style: Light and zippy with fine bubbles. Citrus, green apple and jasmine. Minerality with a dry finish. 

Details: Made as a pétillant naturel with méthode ancestrale, where fermentation begins in tank and finishes in bottle. Grapes are organically farmed and hand harvested, with no fining, filtration, or sulfur added. This cuvée comes from Robinot’s négociant line, L’Opéra des Vins, using trusted growers from the Loire.

Story: Jean-Pierre Robinot is a legend of the French natural wine world. Before becoming a vigneron, he founded Le Rouge et le Blanc wine magazine and opened L’Ange Vin, one of Paris’ first natural wine bars. In the late 1990s he returned to the Loire Valley where he farms old Chenin and Pineau d’Aunis on limestone and clay soils. His wines, split between his own domaine Les Vignes de l’Ange Vin and his L’Opéra des Vins label, are beloved for their purity, patience, and energy.