Loire Valley
Côt - 2023 - Olivier Bellanger
La Piffaudière
Harvested very mature, the nose is redolent of ripe fruit.... On the palate, it is fluid and smooth, with a spicy finish.... It slips down by itself!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Touraine
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
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100% Côt, another name for Malbec, from young vines grown organically, planted by massal selection in 2012 on flinty clay. Grapes are harvested by hand. Vinification: semi-carbonic, maceration for 10 days, 1/4 destemmed and 3/4 whole bunches, indigenous yeasts, no punching down, and a little pumping over, just a light spraying over the cap. No intervention, matured for 7 months in truncated wooden vats, with blending of press juice and free run juice. Reasoned sulphur at bottling.

Olivier Bellanger
Olivier Bellanger, child of the '78 vintage, grandson and nephew of vignerons, lives in Monthou-sur-Cher. His career started down a rather traditional path, working 10 years as a vineyard worker at classic estates such as Domaine Philippe Tessier. But since Olivier launched his own estate in 2008, with his first vinifications in 2009, his wines have revealed a more vibrant personality than his...
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