The James Suckling Wine Podcast

TASTING T-OINOS WINES WITH CONSULTING ENOLOGIST STEPHANE DERENONCOURT

December 07, 2021 James Suckling, Wine Critic / Masterclass
The James Suckling Wine Podcast
TASTING T-OINOS WINES WITH CONSULTING ENOLOGIST STEPHANE DERENONCOURT
Show Notes

Associate Editor and Taster Claire Nesbitt sits down with T-Oinos Consulting Enologist Stephane Derenoncourt to find out how he got started at the Greek winery and what style of wine he's trying to achieve there with his current project.

Stephane tells Claire his original intention was to make a wine that was "very clean and very different in terms of winemaking." To do this, he stopped the use of oak vats in the making of white wines and also changed the composition of the soil in the vineyards. For the red wines, he chose specific vineyard parcels comprised of clay and schist in order to make "a very good grape with very good ripeness."