50% Gamay/50% Pineau d'Aunis. From certified-biodynamic estate vines planted on flinty clay over tuffeau and yielding a maximum of 25 hl/ha. Harvest is manual. The grapes are destemmed, gently crushed and fermented spontaneously with native yeasts in vat. Maceration lasts several weeks with...

50% Grenache Blanc/25% Viognier/25% Vermentino. 2021 was the first vintage of Bellivière's first macerated white wine, which is part of their "Les Arches de Bellivière" line. The vines are not part of the estate but rather from a Ventoux (southern Rhône) vineyard; the Nicolas family of Bellivière...

100% Chenin Blanc. "Les Rosiers" is from Bellivière's younger Jasnières vines, across 24 parcels totaling 5 hectares. The vines are planted on flinty clay soils rich in tuffeau (soft limestone), are certified-biodynamic and harvested by hand. The bunches are direct-pressed into tank and the juice...

100% Chenin Blanc. P'tits Vélos is Bellivière's only sparkling Chenin. The Nicolas family makes very small quantities of it, out of what they refer to as a sort of solera system, yielding a blend in this case of around 70% 2020 vintage wine and 30% from older vintages. The vines for the wine range...

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

100% Cabernet Franc. Only 3 of Pépière's 43 certifed-biodynamic hectares of vines are planted to black grapes: Côt, Merlot and Cabernet Franc (known locally as Breton). They are in the 10-hectare "home" vineyard in Clisson, known best for the Muscadet from its granite soils de Bourgogne but where a...

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Briords is a 3-hectare lieu-dit in the cru of Château Thébaud. These vines are the estate's oldest plot, planted from massale selection 60-70 years ago. The sandy clay soils are rich in granite de Thébaud, a type differing from granite de Clisson in in its higher feldspar...

100% Chenin Blanc. From certified-biodynamic estate vines in the esteemed Clos du Papillon vineyard, considered one of the grands crus of the appellation. The Clos du Papillon lies in a coulée, a small ravine or valley that cuts across the Savennières hillside. The steep slopes have perfect south-...

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...

ALSO AVAILABLE IN 3/1.5L Gaudrets comes from several southeastern-facing parcels totaling 1.85-hectare, all planted on a plateau of black schist and fine sand above the village of Savennières. Hand harvested, direct press, natural yeast fermentation and aged for 13 months in oak vats and 400L...

Les Quarts is the original plot that gave its name to the Quarts-de-Chaume appellation. The Quarts-de- Chaume terroir—a sunny, south-facing hillside on schists, exposed to the morning mists of the Layon River and ventilated by constant winds—results in “a botrytis of rare concentration."

Pure late-harvest Chenin Blanc from south-facing parcels bordering the Layon river. Harvested slightly earlier than most in the region to maintain freshness. Aged for 14 months in barrel.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN 3/1.5L Anjou insiders might recognize Bonnes Blanches as 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. Domaine Belargus took over Jo Pithon’s 0.57-...

Pure Chenin Blanc from the 2.72 hectare monopole of the Coteau des Treilles. The “Côte-Rôtie” of the Loire was abandoned after WWII because of the steep slopes (up to 70%) and remoteness of inside what is now Pont Barré Natural Reserve. The soil is a mashup of geological chaos including magmatic...

ALSO AVAILABLE IN 6/1.5L Pure Chenin Blanc from the ensemble of the property’s holdings in the Grand Cru of Quarts de Chaume, the terroir is a blend of both schist and pudding sandstone and is almost entirely sound facing over the Layon river. Aged in both barrel and vat for 18 months.