Livia 2019 Domaine Pierre Menard and sulphur stays out of

and sulphur stays out of it entirely

which generally means a blend across years and a wine built to a shape rather than to a calendar

farming biodynamically and rebuilding the land through permaculture

citrus and orchard fruit over a stony base

Livia 2019 Domaine Pierre Menard and sulphur stays out ofLivia is Muscat from the high volcanic terraces of Samos, given time on its skins, and like everything Sous le Vgtal makes it turns the island's sweet wine reputation on its head. Jason Ligas and Patrick Bouju work around sixty small plots between 400 and 910 metres, farming biodynamically and rebuilding the land through permaculture. The wine is raised the way they raise everything, split across amphora, concrete, steel and old barrel, then bottled