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...

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...

Le Veau is the western and southwestern-facing lieu-dit of Quarts de Chaume, where thin, sandy topsoils cover an outcropping of schist bedrock. 100% Chenin Blanc hand harvested, direct press, and natural yeast fermentation. Aged 24 months in 400L French oak barrels

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-...

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.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN 3/1.5L 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.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN 3/1.5L The "Clos des Ruchères" Monopole is at the base of Roche-aux-Moines, on a hillside of rare purple schist. The wine is Chenin Blanc grown on 0.40 hectares of southwest-facing land and aged for 2 years.