Les Bottes Rouges la pépée 2022
- Region
- France » Jura » Arbois AOC
- Type
- red still, dry
- Producer
- Vintage
- 2022
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir
- Alcohol
- 11.5
- Volume
- 750 mL
- Cellar
- not available
Ratings
Nordic berries fighting through a wall of fermentation funk. This wine is absolutely not ready - screaming youth from nose to finish. Blood and spice try to emerge but get slapped down by rigid tannins and screeching acidity that borders on volatile. There's even a salty edge, which is actually brilliant and saves this from being a complete waiting game.
About Producer
Meet Jean-Baptiste Menigoz, a former teacher in Arbois working with special needs children. At some point, he became fixated on low-intervention wines and decided to devote all his free time away from school to work in the vines. Under the tutelage of Stéphane Tissot, Jean-Baptiste learned the ins and outs of the wine world. In 2012 committed fully to trading his classroom for his vineyards.
Being a music lover, Jean-Baptiste named Domaine after a French song (The Red Boots). Musical references continue to pop up in the names of his cuvées. For example, Tôt ou Tard (Sooner or later) is the name of an independent French record label.
Now meet Florien Kleine Snuverink, a former owner of the famed Café Schiller in Amsterdam (Netherlands). She moved to Jura to learn winemaking. Initially, Florien planned to purchase some vines for herself but ultimately decided to join Jean-Baptiste.
So this is Domaine Les Bottes Rouges and two friends that started with different careers in different countries but decided to take the life-changing decision to work full-time as winemakers.
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