Livia 2019 Domaine Pierre Menard citrus and orchard fruit over

citrus and orchard fruit over a stony base

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

Left on its skins it gives dried apricot and orange peel over a dusty

and it is made with as little intervention as the fruit allows

with the kind of light

Livia 2019 Domaine Pierre Menard citrus and orchard fruit overLivia 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