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...

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...

The plot of "La Gordone" faces the Coteau des Treilles, on the North bank of the Layon river. The vines are surrounded by ancient hedges and a large orchard combining fruit trees and medicinal plants.

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...

ALSO AVAILABLE IN 3/1.5L Domaine Belargus took over Jo Pithon’s 0.57-hectares in Bonnes Blanches, 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.  24 months in large...

ALSO AVAILABLE IN 3/1.5L Situated at the start of the Côte des Forges, at the foot of La Roche-aux-Moines, the "Clos des Ruchères" sits on a hillside composed of rare purple schists within the appellation. The vineyard is covered by a very thin soil layer, approximately twenty centimeters deep. The...

Quarts is a south-facing lieu-dit within Quarts de Chaume, historically managed by the seigneurs de Haute Guerche before the French Revolution. For generations, they had tithed a quarter of the wine produced from this parcel to the Abbey of Ronceray in Angers, a tradition reflected in the...