Coteaux du Loir "Eparses" Vieilles Vignes

2020
France
Loire

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 in tank, where the juice settles overnight; it is then moved by gravity into barrels, where it ferments with native yeasts and minimal sulfur. The wine is aged in these 1-3-year-old, 550-liter barrels, with a small proportion of new ones in any given year, for about a year. The 2020 finished at a sec level of sweetness with just 3.9 grams/liter of residual sugar. "Eparses" means "old scattered vines" and is usually the driest, most structured of the Bellivière Chenins. 

 

SKU/Code: 
DB8399-20
Product Line: 
Wine
White
Varietal: 
Chenin Blanc
Farming Type: 
Biodynamic