Ariane Lesné, Grand Gousier 2020

100% Pineau d'Aunis Organic, Vegan   Côteaux du Vendômois, Loire Valley, France From the importer-   Arguably the top wine made at the domaine. Old vines of pineau d’aunis ranging from 55 years old to 120 years old, with the latter planted on their original rootstock. Vinified the same as Picrochole, but sees one extra year of élevage.   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 which 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 mid-2000s, Ariane w