This cuvée comes from four parcels which total 1.12 hectare, situated mid-slope and spread in homogenous fashion over the whole appellation, giving a nice typicity of Bressandes. The soils are deep and made up in equal parts of limestone and clay, giving the wine lovely balance and great length on...

Tour du Bon’s flagship wine, what Agnés calls “the blood of the earth” ; a blend of 55% Mourvedre, 25% Cinsault, and 20% Syrah. Aged for 18 months in large foudres. 

This cuvée is produced to showcase the best Mourvèdre selections from the Saint Ferreol vineyard, planted in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Spicy, wild, and incredibly ageworthy, this cuvée ranks among the finest being produced in Bandol. Aged for 24 months in large foudres. 90% Mourvedre and 10% Carignan.

95% Grenache/5% Pineau d'Aunis. "Bille en Bulle" is a new entrant to Bellivière's second line of wines, Les Arches de Bellivière, created in recent years to give the Nicolas family an opportunity to expand beyond their estate-fruit bottlings. The Grenache vines in this case are in Ventoux in the...

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...

80% Grenache/20% Aubun. Aubun is a rather obsure local variety in the Ventoux that brings freshness to the Grenache base. Astrancia is part of Bellivière's second line of wines, Les Arches de Bellivière, created to give them some flexibility amidst a long run of difficult Loire vintages. The vines...

100% Pineau d'Aunis. The Nicolas family's gobelet-trained Pineau d'Aunis vines are scattered across 14 parcels and range in age from 10 to 50 years old. They are planted on flinty clay soils over tuffeau (soft limestone) and have low yields of  around 25 hl/ha. The farming is certified-biodynamic...

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...

100% Cortese. From a certain parcel of biodynamically farmed estate vines on white limestone-clay soils in Gavi. The bunches are harvested by hand, direct-pressed and fermented spontaneously with no sulfur in old barrels. The wine is aged for around a year in the same old barrels and bottled...

50% Corvina/20% Corvinone/ 20% Rondinella/10% Molinara & Oseleta. Saseti is named for the "little stones" found in the limestone soils of the terraced estate vineyard. The 25-year-old vines are biodynamically farmed, trained in pergola and harvested by hand around into small bins around the end...

50% Corvina/30% Corvinone/20% Rondinella. Monte Dall’Ora’s Camporenzo vineyard is a few kilometers from the home vineyard and is similar in its hilliness and its crumbly limestone soils over limestone rock. Traditional Valpolicella varieties were planted in 2008, trained in guyot rather than in...

60% Corvina/20% Corvinone/20% Rondinella. 2015 was the first vintage from this special 1.5-hectare site. San Giorgio is several miles NW of the home vineyard, on the limestone-rich hill closest to Lake Garda. The southwest-facing parcel of 25-40-year-old vines is a steep hike up to 500+ meters,...

95% Trebbiano/5% Malvasia. From certified-biodynamic vines up to 50 years old in core Montesecondo vineyard in San Casciano in Val di Pesa at the northern edge of the Chianti Classico zone. The old vines have been propagated by the old traditional marcottage method (wherein a vine attached to the...

90% Sangiovese/10% Colorino-Canaiuolo. From certified-biodynamic estate vines in San Casciano in Val di Pesa at the northern edge of the Chianti Classico zone. The fruit comes from two sites--one lower-lying, warmer, with heavier clay soils with alluvial stones, the other much higher, cooler, north...

100% Sangiovese. From certified-biodynamic estate vines in San Casciano in Val di Pesa at the northern edge of the Chianti Classico zone. The fruit comes from two sites--one lower-lying, warmer, with heavier clay soils with alluvial stones, the other much higher, cooler, north-facing and limestone-...

100% Sangiovese (40% Montesecondo/60% sourced). The organically farmed bunches are harvested by hand and destemmed. The berries are slowly pressed, picking up a deep pink color in the process. Fermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts and without sulfur or temperature control in stainless...

100% Syrah from Cortona, from the sandiest part of the vineyard that also makes his Apice, but harvested earlier with this rosato in mind. Direct press, fermented and aged in concrete vats with no sulfur until bottling. Juicy mineral-laced cherries with sneaky concentration. Certified Biodynamic.

100% Grillo. In 2016, Arianna acquired new property and planted four plots of Grillo, totaling two hectares. These vines are in the contrada of Santa Margherita ("SM" with a cheeky strike-through on the label since contrada names are not legal) in Chiaramonte Gulfi, at the foot of the Iblei...

100% Nero d’Avola. Each year, Arianna uses the same few rows of Nero d'Avola in hdr Fosso di Lupo vineyard for perfect, healthy Nero d'Avola clusters to sun-dry for 15 days for her passito-style wine. The organically farmed, hand-harvested fruit is then destemmed, crushed and fermented with...

50% Frappato/50% Nero d'Avola. Grotte Alte is Arianna's only DOCG wine, in this case Vittoria's most famous, Cerasuolo di Vittoria, a blend of the best native varietals, Nero d'Avola and Frappato. "Grotte Alte" is named for the limestone ridges on which the Occhipinti estate lies, straddling and...