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...

100% Chenin Blanc. "Les Rosiers" is from Bellivière's younger Jasnières vines (for Bellivière means under 50 years), across 24 parcels totaling 5 hectares. The vines are planted on flinty clay soils rich in tuffeau (soft limestone), are certified-biodynamic and harvested by hand. The bunches are...

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...

The mythical sandy-clay terroir of "Les Poyeux" distinguishes its Chenin with fresh aromas of white flowers and citrus fruit. Vinified entirely in barrels of different ages for twelve months, the wine’s roundness, aromatic richness and minerality give it length on the palate. This site was planted...

Duveau makes two reds from the famous "Poyeux" vineyard in Chacé. Contrary to what you would expect, the "Bas Poyeux" has little top soil and is composed of sandy limestone on top of rocky green chalk. The vines were planted in 1960. It's aged in a mix of cement and barrels. On the palate, it...

"Les Gaignés" comes from a chalky soil with silt and sand deposits. It's a great intro to Duveau's style - with pure fruit and a hint of pepper. Made entirely in cement tanks.

From the single vineyard "Bois du Chêne" in the village of Brézé with a sandy, loam, and chalky soil. Aged for 18 months in barrels. These are the oldest Chenin vines at the winery, planted in 1960. Total production is only 400 bottles. Extra special and extra limited. Super fresh, lime acidity,...

100% Cabernet Franc. Like the more renowned Les Picasses, Les Peuilles is a lieu-dit close to the village of Beaumont-En-Véron, but it is to the south of town, closer to the Vienne river. It is a plateau rather than a hillside and features soils of clay and flint rather than limestone. The fruit is...

100% Chenin Blanc. From a plot of vines planted in 1978 on the clay-limestone slope of Les Picasses. The farming is certified-organic and the harvest is manual. The whole clusters are gently pressed and the must settled overnight. Fermentation to dryness takes place spontaneously with indigenous...

100% Cabernet Franc. The Grézeaux vines are the Baudry’s oldest, having been planted by Bernard B. in 1975. They lie on a flat, sandy site near the Vienne River in Cravant, very near the winery and the Les Granges vineyard. The key difference between the two sites is the presence of more clay and...

100% Cabernet Franc. 2020 was the first bottling of this particular one-hectare plot of 15-year-old vines, Mollières, which previously was blended into another cuvée. Mollières lies in the extreme west of Chinon, at the highest hillside location of any of Baudry's vines. It is a windy, well-exposed...

100% Sauvignon Blanc. Tue Boeuf has been sourcing from this site known as Petit Buisson on the north bank of the Cher since 2003. It is an organically farmed, hand-harvested, 1.4-hectare parcel of 35-40-year-old vines on flinty clay-limestone soils. Typical of Tue Boeuf whites, Petit Buisson fruit...

1/3 each Sauvignon/Chardonnay/Fié Gris. Roughly translated as "little cold one", Frileuse is an apt name for this frost-prone, 3.8-hectare site at the top of the Tue-Boeuf estate. It is home to three varieties, including Fié Gris, the historical name for Sauvignon Gris, a Sauvignon variant with...

100% Melon de Bourgogne, from Les Bernardières in Chapelle-Heulin. Vines planted in 1998, soil is schist bedrock. Pressed with whole clusters, ambient yeast fermentation, aged for 16 months in underground glass-lined tank, no racking during aging, no fining or filtration, SO2 added at bottling.

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...

100% Romorantin. Cazin's Cour-Cheverny Cuvée Renaissance is made only in certain vintages, when the conditions are right for healthy fruit to be harvested quite late, from the estate's oldest vines (40 to 90 years). The bunches are hand-harvested and pressed directly; the must is fermented in...