Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Jasnieres Coteaux du Loire Blanc Premices 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER This 2019—53% Merlot

This 2019—53% Merlot

and wines like this are why that movement keeps getting more interesting

It's bottled additive-free at 43

passion fruit

and after three decades of organic farming

Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Jasnieres Coteaux du Loire Blanc Premices 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER This 2019—53% MerlotThe inviting way into one of France's most obscure great Chenin addresses. Prmices is a selection of the most open, forward barrels from Bellivire's younger vines orchard fruit, white flowers and a brisk mineral snap where the domaine's senior cuves ask for patience. The vines sit on flinty clay over tuffeau limestone in the Loir valley north of Tours, a cold, marginal corner of France where a catastrophic 1956 frost nearly ended winegrowing for good,