Antoine Lienhardt VdF Rouge Grand Crew 2024 070726OFFER and that shows up as

and that shows up as freshness and detail rather than weight

giving small berries and concentrated wines

and that telltale Serralunga thread of tar and earth running underneath

grown on gentle hills between the mountains and the sea

Four kilometers from the South African ocean on granite soils

Antoine Lienhardt VdF Rouge Grand Crew 2024 070726OFFER and that shows up asThe name is a pun and a thank you note: Grand Crew is Antoine Lienhardt's annual tribute to the team that brings in his harvest, and it is the one wine he makes from fruit outside Burgundy. It comes from organically farmed vineyards in the Gard, in the southern Rhone, and gets about a week of semi carbonic maceration before a gentle press and roughly eight months in concrete egg, with no oak and no heavy extraction anywhere in the process. Lienhardt