Loire Valley
La Piffaudière
Nuits Blanches - 2018 - Olivier Bellanger
With notes of candied lemon and fennel, the ageing of this wine is discernable on the nose, giving it serious stature and elegance... On the palate: dense, rich, a Sauvignon for dining, with beautiful length.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Touraine
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2020 to 2026
- rock’n’roll
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100% Sauvignon from a parcel of 40-year-old vines, grown on flinty clay. Yields of around 15 hl/ha! Manual harvesting. Grapes harvested by hand. Vinification: direct pressing, gentle settling, indigenous yeasts, transfer to barrels mid-fermentation, maturation on lees in 400-litre barrels and conical vats. 2 g/hl of sulphur at bottling. Certified organic.

Olivier Bellanger
Olivier Bellanger, child of the '78 vintage, grandson and nephew of vignerons, lives in Monthou-sur-Cher. His career started down a rather traditional path, working 10 years as a vineyard worker at classic estates such as Domaine Philippe Tessier, where the soil is worked efficiently and with respect. But since Olivier launched his own estate in 2008, with his first vinifications in 2009,...
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