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Pinot Noir Le Chant des Oiseaux 2023, Bruno Schueller

Region: Alsace

Color: A terroir-driven red wine with a dark, garnet-hued color. A precise and sensitive interpretation of Alsatian Pinot Noir: a generous nose of dark fruits (blackberry, blackcurrant, cherry) enhanced by notes of leather and sweet spices, and a juicy, full-bodied palate structured by fine, silky tannins. A confidential cuvée from a tiny plot within the estate—a wine that has already been compared, in blind tastings by professional tasters, to the greatest Pinot Noirs of Burgundy.

Grape varieties: Pinot Noir

Mouth type: A connoisseur's mouth, natural wine no longer scares you, you are ready to enter another dimension, and make breathtaking discoveries. Let yourself be carried away into this world of emotions and surprises!

Service Tips: Serve at around 15-16 °C. Open the bottle at least an hour before, or decant to allow the full aromatic complexity to unfold.

Guard time: A wine that needs time to reveal and refine itself—to be left to rest for a few years in the cellar to see it gain in depth, or to be enjoyed today by decanting it extensively.

€65,00
€65,00
€86,67l
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Volume 75 cl, alcohol 13.5%.

THE WINEMAKER'S STORY — Bruno Schueller, Domaine Gérard Schueller
Bruno Schueller is a prominent figure in Alsatian natural wine, based in Husseren-les-Châteaux, south of Colmar. He continues and perpetuates the work begun by his father Gérard, with rare meticulousness and a character all his own — frank, uncompromising, and wholehearted.
The estate cultivates approximately 10 hectares on the hillsides of Husseren, Eguisheim, and Voegtlinshoffen, with parcels in several Grand Crus (Pfersigberg, Eichberg) and on the lieu-dits Bildstoecklé and Bild, which are dear to the house. The soils are predominantly limestone, clay-limestone, and marl — a complex geology that gives the wines their mineral signature.
A long-time advocate of natural wine, Bruno ferments without inputs and without added sulfites in the vast majority of his cuvées. His wines do not seek to please the Grand Cru commission — like his cousin Jean-François Ginglinger, he embraces a dry, taut style, without artificial residual sugars. Some cuvées, such as LN 012 (for "yeast number 012"), humorously declare the estate's commitment to natural wine.
Across the entire range, one finds the full Alsatian palette — Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Noir — with, for each grape variety, that personal interpretation that has made Bruno's reputation: living, precise, sometimes disconcerting wines, but always sincere and deeply rooted in their terroir.

Label & Natural Wines

Some labels can help us identify a natural wine. The AB label, for example, certifies organic farming. The Demeter label, for its part, guarantees biodynamics. There is also the 'Vin Méthode Nature' label, as well as 'Nature et Progrès', 'Les Vins SAINS', and many others.

Some estates choose to adhere to a single label, or even not to be labeled at all, even though their cultivation and winemaking method would allow it. In other words, there is no strict rule. It all depends on the winemaker's vision, his desires, and his convictions.

For us, it is important to meet all the people we work with in order to understand their working method and select the products that match our ideology.

Natural wine

At Terra Vinea, we are deeply passionate about natural wine. We love the emotions it arouses, the surprises a bottle can give us, the memories wine gives us. We also find it important to consume a product grown and vinified with respect for the fauna and flora, preserving all the life around and in it. These convictions are part of us, and we are proud to represent these women and men who put their heart and soul into offering us these living wines.