Loire Valley
Hommage à Louis Derré - 2020 - Eric Nicolas - Magnum
Domaine de Bellivière
An anthology bottle, Pineau d'Aunis at its best: flowers, white pepper, honey, a touch of mint... A few words from the Domaine: "the texture, delicately extracted, gives this rare wine great aromatic complexity and fine tannins with a silky texture".
- Size
- 150 cl
- Original features
- Biodynamic wine
- Appellation
- Coteaux du Loir
- Degree of alcohol
- 15 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2035
- rock’n’roll
100% Pineau d'Aunis, from vines century-old vines, planted on flint clays right after the phylloxera, cultivated biodynamically and planted on 8 plots spread over the communes of Lhomme, Marçon and Dissay-sous-Courcillon for a total of 0.9 hectare. Harvesting is done by hand with crates. Alcoholic fermentation is done in vats with punching down of the cap, followed by natural malolactic fermentation in barrels and 12 months of maturation on the fine lees in casks. Bottled at the estate with a very light dose of sulphites in November 2021.
Eric Nicolas
Éric and Christine Nicolas, one the great ambassadors of the wines of the Loire today, and not just for the quality of their luscious cuvées of such masterfully balanced sweetness. The couple founded their estate from scratch in 1995, first renovating an old farmhouse and then cobbling together piece by piece some twenty hectares of vines across five communes. After embracing organic...
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