Les Vins Pirouettes Brutal de Claude Blanc NV

Country: France

Region: Alsace

Type: Orange Wine

Grape: Riesling/Sylvaner

A non-vintage, partly skin-macerated white cuvée made as part of the cult Brutal concept. Cultivated and vinified by Claude Straub, Blienschwiller

Granite soils, organically grown fruit. All grapes are sorted while harvested by hand. The Riesling part comes from vintages 2016 and 2017; during the 2018 harvest, they were blended with fresh juice of skin-macerated Sylvaner. Elevage on lees in fiberglass tanks. Racked and bottled without fining, filtration or sulfur added.

Rich and aromatic, white with lots of spices and tropical fruit.