Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Jasnieres Coteaux du Loire Blanc Premices 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER named this wine for them

named this wine for them and built it around a simple question: what would hardworking people who like a good bottle actually want to drink

The result is a Champagne of unusual complexity for an NV: biscuit

so this is Northern Rhone Syrah in its most direct form: violets

It's bottled additive-free at 43

Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Jasnieres Coteaux du Loire Blanc Premices 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER named this wine for themThe 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,