4/8/24 - Champions of Chenin: Domaine Bellivière, Domaine Vincent Carême, Domaine Pinon
4/8/24 - Champions of Chenin: Domaine Bellivière, Domaine Vincent Carême, Domaine Pinon
Belliviere 2021 "L'Effraie" Coteaux du Loir
"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 "This young vines cuvée opens with a...
$36.99
Careme, Vincent 2014 Vouvray l'Ancestrale
Vincent Careme's LâAncestrale is an elegant sparkling wine that receives zero dosage, derived from a single block of 50-year-old trellised bush vines. Â Bunches are small which results in low yields. The thin topsoil consists mainly of clay and flint over...
$34.99
Careme, Vincent 2021 Vouvray Le Clos
The 2021 "Le Clos" from Vincent Careme is from a great "premiere cote" vineyard of very thin clay soils over the Turonian limestone. Â This is one of the best wines of Vouvray - it was brilliant as a demi-sec in...
$35.99
Pinon 2022 Vouvray Buvez du Bon Pinon
From the estate's website: "This is the renaissance of a cuvée created by my great-grandfather - a dry wine from our oldest parcel, planted in 1945 on soils of silex noir and vinfied in our oldest foudres - old 'tonneaux'...
$31.99
Pinon, Francois & Julien 2022 Vouvray Sec
100% Chenin Blanc. Pinon chooses vines from more clay-forward parcels for its annual sec bottling. They average 45 years old and have been certified organic since 2007. The bunches are harvested by hand, rigorously sorted and direct-pressed slowly and gently....
$29.99
