Ariane Lesné, ‘Picrochole’ Pineau d’Aunis (2022)
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Loire, France— Ethereal, chalky, savory Pineau d’Aunis— super delicate red fruit, white pepper, earth and dried herbs. Medium-light bodied with fine tannins that reveal themselves as the wine opens up. In the lineage of some the best Pineau d’Aunis from the Loire… No S02.
Ariane Lesné has been working in wine since the early 1990s after leaving university with a postgraduate degree in management and marketing, specifically in the area of wines and spirits. In 1994, she joined the Repaire de Bacchus, a chain of Parisian wine stores. It was in 1998 that Ariane worked her first harvest in Burgundy and led her to complete her training with a Professional Patent Manager Farmer, with the goal of one day managing her own domain. She stayed in Burgundy for six years, where she had the chance to work with one of the seminal (now certified biodynamic) domaines in Nuits St. Georges, Domaine de L’Arlot.
In the beginning of 2014, Ariane learned that Emile Héredia, the owner of Domaine de Montrieux in the Côteaux du Vendômois, would be selling the estate. She didn’t think twice about it, and by harvest time she was living on the estate, ultimately taking over by the spring of 2015