Sophie Schaal Pinot Noir 2024 Emil The 2023 Loire growing season

The 2023 Loire growing season turned difficult after a promising start

and he treats it accordingly: as raw material for a serious

Aged 8-12 months in stainless

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Sophie Schaal Pinot Noir 2024 Emil The 2023 Loire growing seasonThe Land Sophie Schaal is based in Hunawihr, one of the pretty hilltop villages between Ribeauvill and Riquewihr in the heart of Alsace. This is limestone and clay country in the foothills of the Vosges, whose rain shadow makes Alsace one of the driest, sunniest corners of France. Pinot Noir is the only red grape permitted in AOC Alsace, and on these cool, calcareous soils it takes on a Burgundian cast: red and dark fruit with acidity and lift rather