Loire Valley
Notes of white-fleshed fruit and citrus. Fine, fresh bubbles, lovely volume, with a lively, lingering finish on apple and honeysuckle. The aromatics have settled with the longer aging on this batch — truly delicious.
Blend of 40% Menu Pineau, 30% Chardonnay, and 30% Sauvignon, 100% estate-grown for this new vintage, from vines farmed organically. Manual harvest and direct pressing by harvest date, with a very short passage in vats. Bottled early during alcoholic fermentation, with residual sugars to create natural effervescence in the bottle. Aged on laths for 15 months, disgorged in February 2025. Unfined, unfiltered, minimal sulfites.
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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