Vanessa Letort does not own a single hectare of vines, and yet every bottle of Du Vin Aux Liens carries her fingerprints. Her project is built on relationships: with the growers who farm honestly, and with the drinkers who want wine that is alive.
Backstory
Letort entered the wine world in 2014 and spent her early years working alongside the Les Vins Pirouettes collective in Alsace. In 2019 she struck out on her own, founding Du Vin Aux Liens as a natural wine negociant. The name plays on the idea of liens, the ties or links between people, grapes, and place. She began vinifying that same year, learning the cellar first with Claude Straub and later working at Farid Yahimi's Sons of Wine estate in Beblenheim.
The Region
Based in Lorraine at Dommartin-sous-Amance, Du Vin Aux Liens sources fruit principally from Alsace and the Loire Valley. As the daughter and granddaughter of Breton farmers, she also makes cider from her family's apple orchards in Brittany.
Vineyards and Farming
Because Du Vin Aux Liens is a negociant, the vineyard work belongs to her partner growers, and she chooses them carefully. All the fruit comes from plots farmed organically or biodynamically, harvested by hand. She works with a circle of domaines that share her standards rather than buying on the open market.
Winemaking
Letort of Du Vin Aux Liens takes part in the vinification of most of her cuvees herself. The approach is strictly natural: spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, no additives, no technological correction, and no added sulfites. She is a member of the union defending natural wines, working to those standards even before adopting the official label on her bottles.
The Wines
The Du Vin Aux Liens range spans living reds, whites and sparkling wines under cuvee names such as Fusion Vineuse, Flow, Vertige, J'hallucine, GW and Chaos, alongside the family ciders. They are wines of energy and movement, made to be poured among friends rather than studied at arm's length.
