Pirouettes, Le Brutal de Jean Marc 2020 750ml

Making of: Grapes are hand harvested with a triage in the vines, destemmed, and fermented with indigenous yeast and zero sulfur. The varieties are vinified separately, and spend about 18 days macerating on the skins, producing a nice orange/pink color. Elevage on the fine lees for 11 months in traditional large Alsatian foudre and bottled with zero addition of sulfur. The wine is blended a day before being bottled, Unfined and unfiltered.

Winemaker's Note: The Brutal wine corporation is a loose conglomeration of natural winemakers. All the wines have no sulfur added. Generally, all the labels for Brutal wines looked the same, although you will find cuvées with a slightly altered design (such as the Gut Oggau one, for example) – here, the usual grim reaper slaying the SO2 is replaced by a stork, a symbol of Alsace.