Jean-Pierre Robinot: What Living Wine Is
An archive interview with Sarthe vigneron and pivotal early natural wine advocate Jean-Pierre Robinot.
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Perpetually hoarse, with his cascade of wiry hair emerging from a varying assortment of beanies, caps, and headlamps, with his technicolor shirts and flowing foulards, Sarthe vigneron Jean-Pierre Robinot cuts an unmistakeable madcap figure at natural wine salons. You half …