A rich, taut profile, beautiful minerality, yellow fruit, citrus, honey... A few words from the estate: “This wine, with its unique character, expresses all its complexity with finesse and elegance.” A soft wine, with 6.94 grams of residual sugar per liter.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Biodynamic wine
- Designation
- Coteaux du Loir AOP
- Bottled by
- Domaine de Bellivière
- Colour
- White wine
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2026 to 2040
- rock’n’roll
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100% Chenin from 80- to 90-year-old vines farmed biodynamically on flinty clay soils over tufa stone. The wine is a blend of selected barrels from 6 parcels spread over 1.8 hectare in the communes of Marçon and Dissay-sous-Courcillon. Harvesting is done by hand with crates. Vinification: after pneumatic pressing and natural cold settling, the wine ferments with indigenous yeasts, then matures on its fine lees for 20 months in 500-liter barrels that have seen several wines. Bottled in April 2024.
Clément and Laure-Anne Nicolas
Clément Nicolas and his wife Laure-Anne took over the reins of Domaine de Bellivière in a smooth transition in 2021, after Clément had joined his parents, Eric and Christine Nicolas, at the estate in 2015. Founded in 1995, the Domaine has become a Loire Valley benchmark, especially for its Jasnières and Coteaux-du-Loir—two underappreciated appellations that the family elevated to excellence...
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