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Bellivière

Bellivière - Coteaux du Loir "Prémices"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB0382-22

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
DB8415-22

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
DB0547-22

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 6 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
DB8399-22

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

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 "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
DB8966-23

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...

Biodynamic
DB2005-20

Pépière - Muscadet Sèvre et Maine "Clisson"
Melon de Bourgogne from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB0676-22

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

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...

Biodynamic
DB0316-22

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
DB0317-22

Filliatreau

Filliatreau - Saumur Blanc "Château Fouquet"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB4315-23

Domaine Belargus

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Roueres"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

Pure Chenin Blanc from one of the three original decreed parcels of the Quarts de Chaume, Rouères. This parcel is southeast-facing and just a few meters north of the Layon river. This parcel produces powerful, dense, and firmly structured dry Quarts de Chaume. Aged for 18 months in barrel before...

WA:96 WS:93 Biodynamic
DB3759-19

Domaine Belargus - Savennières "Ruchères"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
WA:93 Biodynamic
DB5237-20

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Quarts"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
WA:98 Biodynamic
DB4423-19

Domaine Belargus - Savennières "Gaudrets"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB4394-22

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Quarts"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
DE:97 Biodynamic
DB4423-20

Domaine Belargus - Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru "Quarts"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB3760-21

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Veau"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB4438-19

Domaine Belargus - Coteaux du Layon
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
DE:92 Biodynamic
DB4958-22

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Bonnes Blanches"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

ALSO AVAILABLE IN 3/1.5L Anjou insiders might recognize Bonnes Blanches as one of the famed crus of the Layon valley from the work of Jo Pithon, Domaine Oggereau, and Réné Mosse. This gently sloping lieu-dit faces north, and the soils are rich in schist. Domaine Belargus took over Jo Pithon’s 0.57-...

DE:91 Biodynamic
DB4491-19

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Treilles"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

Pure Chenin Blanc from the 2.72 hectare monopole of the Coteau des Treilles. The “Côte-Rôtie” of the Loire was abandoned after WWII because of the steep slopes (up to 70%) and remoteness of inside what is now Pont Barré Natural Reserve. The soil is a mashup of geological chaos including magmatic...

WS:94 Biodynamic
DB3677-20

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Ronceray"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB3675-21

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Anjou Noir" Magnums
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

6/1.5L Pure Chenin Blanc from mostly schist terroir (plus some pudding stone) in the village of Siant Lambert du Lattay. This is the only “village” dry wine that is made in the estate with the rest being either lieu-dut bottlings are single cru bottlings. One year in a combination of barrel and vat.

Biodynamic
DB4422-21

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Ronceray"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB3675-20

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