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Bellivière

Bellivière - Coteaux du Loir "Prémices"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB0382-22

Bellivière - Coteaux du Loir "Eparses" Vieilles Vignes
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "Eparses" is from Bellivière's oldest Coteaux du Loir vines across 6 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...

Biodynamic
DB8399-22

Bellivière - Coteaux du Loir "L'Effraie"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "L'Effraie" is from Bellivière's younger Coteaux du Loir vines, across 11 parcels totaling 3.5 hectares. These gobelet-pruned, 10-30-year-old vines are planted on flinty, sandy clay soils over tuffeau (soft limestone), are certified-biodynamic and harvested by hand. The bunches...

Biodynamic
DB8415-22

Bellivière - "Les P'tits Vélos À Pignon Fixe"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

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...

Biodynamic
DB8809-20A

Bellivière - Jasnières "Les Rosiers"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

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...

Biodynamic
DB0547-22

Raffault, Domaine Olga

Raffault, Domaine Olga - Chinon Blanc "Chenin des Picasses"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB3947-21

Raffault, Domaine Olga - Chinon Blanc "Champ-Chenin"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Raffault has some of the oldest Chenin Blanc vines in Chinon in a one-hectare monopole called Champ Chenin, a particularly limestone-rich patch of ground in due west of the famous Les Picasses vineyard. Like all Raffault vines, these are farmed organically and harvested by hand....

Organic
DB0456-18

Baudry, Domaine Bernard

Baudry, Domaine Bernard - Chinon Blanc
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. From around 1.2 hectares' worth of parcels of 10-20-year-old vines on clay soils featuring limestone and flint. The farming is certified-organic with all vineyard work and harvest done by hand. The whole clusters are pressed slowly and gently, followed by natural settling in tank...

Organic
DB0305-23

Closel

Closel - Savennières Les Caillardières
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. From certified-biodynamic estate vines in the Les Caillardières vineyard, which lies on the plateau of Savennières on silky-textured, very poor soils of sand and schist. These 45-year-old vines are harvested by hand 10 days after the earliest-picked wine, La Jalousie, when the...

Biodynamic
DB3342-22

Closel - Savennières Clos du Papillon
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

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-...

Biodynamic
DB0317-22

Closel - Savennières Les Caillardières
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

Biodynamic
DB3342-21

Closel - Savennières Clos du Papillon
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

Biodynamic
DB0317-21

Closel - Savennières La Jalousie
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

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...

Biodynamic
DB0316-22

Filliatreau

Filliatreau - Saumur Blanc "Lena"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Sourced from a single grower with certified-sustainable vines nearby in Saumur. Filliatreau harvests the fruit. The bunches are direct-pressed and fermented to complete dryness with native yeasts in stainless steel tanks. The wine is aged in tank on its fine lees until the spring...

Organic
DB6199-23

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray Brut
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB8928-22

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray Sec "Buvez du Bon Pinon"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "Buvez du Bon Pinon" is a very special resurrection of a wine by Julien Pinon, starting in the 2020 vintage, in honor of the preceding generations of the family. His great grandfather Camille planted the vines for "Bon Pinon" in 1945 on silex noir or "black flint" soils unique to...

Organic
DB4145-22

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray "Les Déronnières"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "Deronnières" is one of Pinon's two usual sec bottlings and is also a terroir-focused bottling, featuring the most limestone-forward of their parcels. The vines are on an exposed hilltop rich in tuffeau, the soft, chalky limestone particular to Vouvray and are the first to ripen...

Organic
DB8902-22

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray Brut "Non-Dosé"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Pinon makes two traditional-method sparkling wines, from bunches picked earlier than for the still wines and from the more clay and flint-forward parcels. The vines average 45 years old and have been certified-organic since 2007. For the non-dosé--versus the straight brut--the...

Organic
DB8931-20

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray Sec
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB8892-22

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray "Première Trie" Moelleux
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Organic
DB4952-03

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray "Trois Argiles"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. "Trois Argiles" or "three clays" is named for the 3 parcels of Pinon's most clay-forward soils which go into this demi-sec bottling. They lie on an east-facing plateau and tend to be cooler and slower-ripening thanks to the water-retaining soils. Overall the Pinon vines average...

WS:93 JG:92 Organic
DB8926-20

Pinon, Domaine François et Julien - Vouvray "Silex Noir"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

100% Chenin Blanc. Silex noir is a rare black flint found almost exclusively in this tiny corner of Vouvray, the Vallée de Cousse. it lends its name to this bottling, one of Pinon's two demi-sec bottlings (other is "Trois Argiles"). "Silex Noir" comes mainly from 2 parcels totaling 3.7 hectares on...

Organic
DB8927-23

Chenin Blanc (35%), Chardonnay (25%), Pinot Gris (25%), and Orange Muscat (15%) from organically farmed vineayrds in Lodi and Yolo Counties in the Sierra Foothills.. The fruit was foot stomped and fermented dry on skins before aging in neutral French oak for six months before bottling, unfined and...

Organic
DB2360-23

Mary Taylor Wine

Mary Taylor Wine - Anjou Blanc (Pascal Biotteau)
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

This extremely conscientious farm in the Coteaux de L’Aubance, within the Anjou-Villages, is run by the Biotteau family. This is the fourth generation of Biotteau to make wine here, so they are careful to respect the land. This gorgeously subtle Chenin Blanc comes from the village of Saint-Jean-de...

Sustainable
DB3235-23

Domaine Belargus

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Veau"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB4438-19

Domaine Belargus - Coteaux du Layon
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
DE:92 Biodynamic
DB4958-22

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Bonnes Blanches"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

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-...

DE:91 Biodynamic
DB4491-19

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Treilles"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

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...

WS:94 Biodynamic
DB3677-20

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Ronceray"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB3675-21

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Anjou Noir" Magnums
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

6/1.5L Pure Chenin Blanc from mostly schist terroir (plus some pudding stone) in the village of Siant Lambert du Lattay. This is the only “village” dry wine that is made in the estate with the rest being either lieu-dut bottlings are single cru bottlings. One year in a combination of barrel and vat.

Biodynamic
DB4422-21

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Ronceray"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB3675-20

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Roueres"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

Pure Chenin Blanc from one of the three original decreed parcels of the Quarts de Chaume, Rouères. This parcel is southeast-facing and just a few meters north of the Layon river. This parcel produces powerful, dense, and firmly structured dry Quarts de Chaume. Aged for 18 months in barrel before...

WA:96 WS:93 Biodynamic
DB3759-19

Domaine Belargus - Savennières "Ruchères"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
WA:93 Biodynamic
DB5237-20

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Quarts"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
WA:98 Biodynamic
DB4423-19

Domaine Belargus - Savennières "Gaudrets"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB4394-22

Domaine Belargus - Anjou Blanc "Quarts"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
DE:97 Biodynamic
DB4423-20

Domaine Belargus - Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru "Quarts"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France
Biodynamic
DB3760-21

Birichino

Birichino - Chenin Blanc Jurassic Park Vineyard
Chenin Blanc from California, United States

DB4477-23

Duveau, Fabien

Duveau, Fabien - Saumur Blanc "La Hunaudière"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

Thirty year-old Chenin Blanc grown in alternating layers of calcareous sand on tuffeau (green chalky limestone found in the Loire Valley) in the "Hunaudière" vineyard in the town of Saint-Cyr. Aged for six months in concrete tanks and neutral barrels. On the palate there is great tension with lime...

DB4960-23

Duveau, Fabien - Saumur Blanc "Les Poyeux"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

The mythical sandy-clay terroir of "Les Poyeux" distinguishes its Chenin with fresh aromas of white flowers and citrus fruit. Vinified entirely in barrels of different ages for twelve months, the wine’s roundness, aromatic richness and minerality give it length on the palate. This site was planted...

DB4961-22

Duveau, Fabien - Saumur Blanc Brézé "Le Bois du Chêne"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

From the single vineyard "Bois du Chêne" in the village of Brézé with a sandy, loam, and chalky soil. Aged for 18 months in barrels. These are the oldest Chenin vines at the winery, planted in 1960. Total production is only 400 bottles. Extra special and extra limited. Super fresh, lime acidity,...

DB4962-22

Duveau, Fabien - Saumur Blanc Brézé "Le Bois du Chêne"
Chenin Blanc from Loire, France

DB4962-23

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