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Bellivière

Bellivière - Les Arches de Bellivière VDF Blanc "Caragouille"
Grenache Blanc from Loire, France

50% Grenache Blanc/25% Viognier/25% Vermentino. 2021 is the first vintage of Bellivière's first macerated white wine, which is part of their newer "Les Arches de Bellivière" line of wines. The vines are not part of the estate but rather from a Ventoux (southern Rhône) vineyard; the Nicolas family...

Biodynamic
DB4516-22

Bellivière - Jasnières "Prémices"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Certified-biodynamic Bellivière owns and farms 18 hectares across 60 parcels in 5 villages in the Jasnières and Coteaux-du-Loir appellations in this northernmost part of the Touraine. "Prémices" is a selection of the most fruit-forward barrels and is the first release in any...

Biodynamic
DB0382-22

Bellivière - Coteaux du Loir "Eparses" Vieilles Vignes
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "Eparses" is from Bellivière's oldest Coteaux du Loir vines across 5 tiny parcels. These gobelet-pruned, 80-100-year-old beauties are planted on flinty, sandy clay soils over tuffeau (soft limestone), are certified-biodynamic and harvested by hand. The bunches are direct-pressed...

Biodynamic
DB8399-20

Bellivière - Coteaux du Loir "L'Effraie"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "L'Effraie" is from Bellivière's younger Coteaux du Loir vines, across 11 parcels totaling 3.5 hectares. These gobelet-pruned, 10-30-year-old vines are planted on flinty, sandy clay soils over tuffeau (soft limestone), are certified-biodynamic and harvested by hand. The bunches...

Biodynamic
DB8415-21

Bellivière - Jasnières "Les Rosiers"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "Les Rosiers" is from Bellivière's younger Jasnières vines, 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 direct-pressed into tank and the juice...

Biodynamic
DB0547-21

Raffault, Domaine Olga

Raffault, Domaine Olga - Chinon Blanc "Champ-Chenin"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Raffault has some of the oldest Chenin Blanc vines in Chinon in a one-hectare monopole called Champ Chenin, a particularly limestone-rich patch of ground in due west of the famous Les Picasses vineyard. Like all Raffault vines, these are farmed organically and harvested by hand....

Organic
DB0456-18

Raffault, Domaine Olga - Chinon Blanc "Chenin des Picasses"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB3947-20

Thomas-Labaille

Thomas-Labaille - Sancerre Monts Damnés "Cuvée Buster"
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France

NOT MADE IN THE 2021 VINTAGE 100% Sauvignon Blanc. This cuvée was first bottled in 1997 in homage to Joe Dressner's and Denyse Louis' dog Buster and is bottled annually (unlike other Buster cuvées, which are otherwise only a one-time, one-shot special bottling from a given Dressner producer). "...

Sustainable
DB0375-22

Thomas-Labaille - Sancerre "L'Authentique"
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France
Sustainable
DB0018-23

Thomas-Labaille - Sancerre Monts Damnés
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France

NOT MADE IN THE 2021 VINTAGE 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Thomas-Labaille has vines averaging thirty years old with some much older on the famously steep slope of Monts Damnés in Chavignol. They are sustainably farmed and harvested by hand. The wine is fermented with native yeasts in fiberglass and cement...

Sustainable
DB8973-22

Baudry, Domaine Bernard

Baudry, Domaine Bernard - Chinon Blanc
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. From around 1.2 hectares' worth of parcels of 10-20-year-old vines on clay soils featuring limestone and flint. The farming is certified-organic with all vineyard work and harvest done by hand. The whole clusters are pressed slowly and gently, followed by natural settling in tank...

Organic
DB0305-22

Pépière

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Château Thébaud"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

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...

Biodynamic
DB8353-19

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie "La Pépie"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Classic Muscadet on granite. The core of the "La Pépie" Sur Lie bottling is the 10-hectare heart of the Pépière estate, which is part of the Clisson cru in the tiny commune of Pépière near the winery; there is also a portion of purchased fruit from a nearby organic farmer...

Organic
DB8905-22

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie "Briords-Cuvée Vieilles Vignes"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Briords is a 3-hectare lieu-dit in the cru of Château Thébaud. These vines are the estate's oldest plot, planted from massale selection 60-70 years ago. The sandy clay soils are rich in granite de Thébaud, a type differing from granite de Clisson in in its higher feldspar...

Biodynamic
DB8966-22

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Monnières-Saint Fiacre"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Pépière has vines in a couple of different zones of the cru of Monnières-St.-Fiacre (including the lieu-dit of Gras Moutons which is separately bottled). The site for this bottling features 60-year-old vines on fine, sandy, gneiss-rich soils. As for all Pépière vines and...

Organic
DB2005-19

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Sur Lie "Gras Moutons"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Organic
DB0331-22

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Gorges"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

100% Melon de Bourgogne. From 1.67 hectares in the cru of Gorges, the newest addition to the Pepière estate, a plot forever farmed and sold to them by esteemed vigneron Michel Brégeon. Gorges is a departure for Pepière: it is the furthest away from the village and home vineyards and more importanly...

Organic
DB5800-19

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre et Maine "Clisson"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB0676-20

Closel

Closel - Savennières La Jalousie
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. The fruit from "La Jalousie" comes from the youngest estate vines and is harvested the earliest of the three Closel wines. The vines are generally 20 years old or younger and are in different parcels across all three main Closel micro-terroirs (plateau, hillsides or coteaux, and...

V:92 WS:92 JG:92 Biodynamic
DB0316-20

Closel - Savennières Les Caillardières
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. From certified-biodynamic estate vines in the Les Caillardières vineyard, which lies on the plateau of Savennières on silky-textured, very poor soils of sand and schist. These 45-year-old vines are harvested by hand 10 days after the earliest-picked wine, La Jalousie, when the...

Biodynamic
DB3342-20

Closel - Savennières Les Caillardières
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

Biodynamic
DB3342-21

Closel - Savennières Clos du Papillon
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. From certified-biodynamic estate vines in the esteemed Clos du Papillon vineyard, considered one of the grands crus of the appellation. The Clos du Papillon lies in a coulée, a small ravine or valley that cuts across the Savennières hillside. The steep slopes have perfect south-...

Biodynamic
DB0317-21

Filliatreau

Filliatreau - Saumur Blanc "Château Fouquet"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Château Fouquet is a lieu-dit in the village of Brézé 10 kilometers east of Saumur. Filliatreau acquired some partly abandoned Cab Franc vines here in the 1990s and set about converting the farming first to organics (certified since 1998) and then to biodynamics (certified since...

Organic
DB4315-21

Filliatreau - Saumur Blanc "Lena"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Filliatreau sources most of the fruit from Saumur neighbors for "Lena", as they have relatively little Chenin Blanc on their own certified-organic estate. As a rule, the vines are farmed sustainably and range from 10-20 years old; Filliatreau does the harvesting themselves. The...

Organic
DB6199-22

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray Sec "Buvez du Bon Pinon"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB4145-22

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray "Les Déronnières"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "Deronnières" is one of Pinon's two usual sec bottlings and is also a terroir-focused bottling, featuring the most limestone-forward of their parcels. The vines are on an exposed hilltop rich in tuffeau, the soft, chalky limestone particular to Vouvray and are the first to ripen...

Organic
DB8902-22

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray "Trois Argiles"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "Trois Argiles" or "three clays" is named for the 3 parcels of Pinon's most clay-forward soils which go into this demi-sec bottling. They lie on an east-facing plateau and tend to be cooler and slower-ripening thanks to the water-retaining soils. Overall the Pinon vines average...

WS:93 JG:92 Organic
DB8926-20

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray "Silex Noir"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Silex noir is a rare black flint found almost exclusively in this tiny corner of Vouvray, the Vallée de Cousse. it lends its name to this bottling, one of Pinon's two demi-sec bottlings (other is "Trois Argiles"). "Silex Noir" comes mainly from 2 parcels totaling 3.7 hectares on...

JG:93+ VM:90 Organic
DB8927-18

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray Sec
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB8892-22

Cazin

Cazin - Cour-Cheverny
Romorantin from Loire, France

100% Romorantin. Cour Cheverny has only existed as an AOC since 1997; François Cazin was instrumental in the drive to establish it to save this ancient local variety. The Cazin vines are planted on clay-limestone soils; some go all the way back to 1928. The farming is sustainable and the harvest by...

Sustainable
DB0004-20

Cazin - Cheverny Blanc
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France

80% Sauvignon Blanc/20% Chardonnay. Though Cazin's quiet rock-stardom stems from his Cour-Cheverny wines from the more obscure Romorantin grape, it was his Cheverny Blanc--by law a Sauvignon/Chardonnay blend-- which led importer Joe Dressner to François's wines in the first place at a Loire wine...

Sustainable
DB0003-22

Cazin - Cheverny Blanc
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France

Sustainable
DB0003-23

Cazin - Cour-Cheverny
Romorantin from Loire, France

Sustainable
DB0004-21

Cazin - Cour-Cheverny Cuvée Renaissance
Romorantin from Loire, France
Sustainable
DB0300-20

This cuvée comes from 62-year-old Sauvignon Blanc vines with a south-southwest exposure, on a soil composed of silica and clay soil. Part of the wine is vinified in cement and “inox” tanks, and another part in new oak barrels; the wine is aged for 10 months on the fine lees, with bâtonnage.

Sustainable
DB7311-20

Fiou, Domaine Gerard - Sancerre Blanc "Silex"
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France
Sustainable
DB7310-22

Martin, Yves

Martin, Yves - Sancerre Chavignol
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France
Sustainable
DB6952-22

Martin, Yves - Sancerre Chavignol "Clos de Beaujeu"
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France
Sustainable
DB1368-22

Martin, Yves - Sancerre La Côte des Monts Damnés
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France

From one of Sancerre's most famous single-vineyard sites. La Cote des Monts Damnes has very steep slopes with south, south-east exposure and the vines are planted at 250 - 350 meters altitude. Like all of Yves Martin's wines, the fermentation is spontanoeus with indigenous yeasts. It's aged on the...

Sustainable
DB3792-22

Domaine Girard

Domaine Girard - Sancerre "La Garenne"
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France
Sustainable
DB0301-22

Tue-Boeuf, Clos du

Tue-Boeuf, Clos du - VDF "Le Brin de Chèvre" (Menu Pineau)
Menu Pineau from Loire, France

100% Menu Pineau. Brin de Chèvre ("goat's hay") comes from two neighboring parcels, one planted in 1937 and the other in 1950; currently, those original old vines make up about 70% of the wine, with the rest from massale-selection replantings from over the last decade or two. The Puzelats farm the...

Organic
DB8334-22

Bowler Wine

NYC Wine Spirits Importer Distributor

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