Clos du Tue-Boeuf Pineau d`Aunis 2024 no ups all crunchy red fruit with

all crunchy red fruit with a little pomegranate spice

drinking well now with a decant

and lightly toasted baking spices like clove and Ceylon cinnamon

and their Classic Pinot Noir shows what the region does with the grape when it isn't trying to cosplay Burgundy

Clos du Tue-Boeuf Pineau d`Aunis 2024 no ups all crunchy red fruit withPineau 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,