95% Grenache/5% Pineau d'Aunis. "Bille en Bulle" is a new wine in Bellivière's "Les Arches de Bellivière" line-up, which was created in recent years to give the Nicolas family an opportunity to expand beyond their estate bottlings. The Grenache vines in this case are in Ventoux in the southern...

50% Pineau d'Aunis/50% Grenache. 2022 is the first vintage for this particular "Convergence" of Bellivière's work in their home turf of the Loire and a farmer friend's in Ventoux in the southern Rhône. The Pineau d'Aunis is from their certified-biodynamic estate vines on flinty tuffeau and clay...

50% Gamay/50% Pineau d'Aunis. From certified-biodynamic estate vines planted on flinty clay over tuffeau and yielding a maximum of 25 hl/ha. Harvest is manual. The grapes are destemmed, gently crushed and fermented spontaneously with native yeasts in vat. Maceration lasts several weeks with...

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Pépière has 14 hectares of vines in the cru of Château Thébaud, but only a 1.5-hectare parcel of vines 25 to 70 years old goes into this bottling (the rest goes into the entry-level "La Pépie"). The south-facing site features sandy clay soils based on decomposed granite de...