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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. Caragouille--named for the tiny snails found in the vineyard--is Bellivière's first macerated white and is part of their "Les Arches de Bellivière" line of Vin de France wines. The vines are not part of the estate but rather from a Ventoux (southern...

Biodynamic
DB4516-22

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

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...

Biodynamic
DB0547-22

Duveau, Fabien

Duveau, Fabien - Saumur Blanc "Les Poyeux"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

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...

DB4961-22

Duveau, Fabien - Saumur Blanc Brézé "Le Bois du Chêne"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

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,...

DB4962-23

Millet, Gerard

Millet, Gerard - Sancerre Blanc `Le Desert du Petit Bannon`
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France

35 year old vines, from a vineyard called “Le Désert du Petit Bannon” located in the commune of Vinon. The terroir is composed of clay-siliceous soil with lots of flint pebbles. Direct pressing with cold static settling for four days. The must is then moved into 400L barrels where it undergos...

Sustainable
DB5707-20

Millet, Gerard - Sancerre Blanc `Chene Marchand`
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France

100% Sauvignon Blanc from a top site in Bué named “Chêne Marchand”. Soils of calcareous composition called “Caillottes”. These are small limestone pebbles that are friable. Direct pressing with cold static settling for four days, then the must is moved to 600L barrels where it undergoes...

Sustainable
DB5706-17

Fiou, Domaine Gerard

Fiou, Domaine Gerard - Sancerre Blanc "Le Grand Roc"
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France

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
DB7311-23

Closel

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
DB3342-22

Tue-Boeuf, Clos du

Tue-Boeuf, Clos du - VDF "Le Petit Buisson" (Sauvignon)
Sauvignon Blanc from Loire, France

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...

Organic
DB1021-24

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 vines are planted...

Organic
DB8334-24

Tue-Boeuf, Clos du - Cheverny Blanc "Frileuse"
White Blend from Loire, France

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...

Organic
DB8333-24

Luneau-Papin, Domaine

Luneau-Papin, Domaine - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Le Verger"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Organic
DB5837-23

Luneau-Papin, Domaine - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Les Pierres Blanches"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Organic
DB5846-23

Luneau-Papin, Domaine - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Gula-Ana"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Organic
DB5848-21

Luneau-Papin, Domaine - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "L D`Or"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Organic
DB5843-23

Luneau-Papin, Domaine - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Gula-Ana"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Organic
DB5848-23

Luneau-Papin, Domaine - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "La Grange"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

100% Melon de Bourgogne. From multiple parcels in the village of Le Landreau, planted in 1974, in schist soil with micaschist bedrocks. 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...

Organic
DB5838-23

Luneau-Papin, Domaine - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Clos de L`Allée"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Organic
DB5840-23

Luneau-Papin, Domaine - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "L D`Or"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Organic
DB5843-22

Luneau-Papin, Domaine - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Terre de Pierre"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

100% Melon de Bourgogne. The magmatic origins, the very composition of the rock as well as the multiple upheavals it has undergone give this place, aptly called La Butte de la Roche, a vibrant energy. This unique terroir in the Pays Nantais is the foundation of our generation of winegrowers. Vines...

Organic
DB5847-22

Baudry, Domaine Bernard

Baudry, Domaine Bernard - Chinon Blanc "Le Domaine"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB0305-24

Pépière

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Le Repos du Mouton"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France

100% Melon de Bourgogne. A few years ago, Pépière added 4 hectares in the Gras Moutons lieu-dit to their holdings. For this first vintage, they decided to vinify it separately and age it longer than from their classic "Gras Moutons". The "rest of the sheep" name is a play on the "fat sheep" of "...

Biodynamic
DB6776-22

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
DB8353-22

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Monnières-Saint Fiacre"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB2005-22

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien

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 Goutte d'Or
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. From a 0.75-hectare, certified-organic parcel of 60-year-old estate vines on clay over limestone. Pinon’s Goutte d’Or liquoreux is its most rare, complex, vaunted sweet wine, produced thus far only in 1989, 1990 and 2018. The correct conditions are quite rare. In 2018, the grapes...

Organic
DB4951-18

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...

Organic
DB8927-23

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
DB0456-23

Cazin

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
DB0003-24

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
DB0004-22

Cazin - Cour-Cheverny Cuvée Renaissance
Romorantin from Loire, France
Sustainable
DB0300-22

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