Jasnières "Les Rosiers"

France
Loire
2022

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 allowed to settle overnight; it is then moved by gravity into barrel for fermentation with native yeasts and minimal sulfur. The wine is aged in these1-3-year-old, 350-liter barrels, with a small proportion of new ones in any given year, for about a year. Bellivière Chenins always finish with at least a little residual sugar, as the family will never push the fermentation past the point where it lands naturally. The 2022 finished with 7 grams RS/liter (and 3.65 grams of acidity). The name of the wine references the rose bushes the Nicolas family planted outside their cellar door decades ago. 

SKU/Code: 
DB0547-22
Product Line: 
Wine
White
Varietal: 
Chenin Blanc
Farming Type: 
Biodynamic