Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Jasnieres Coteaux du Loire Blanc Premices 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER so this is Northern Rhone

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

an amphitheater of Petit Manseng so striking it reminded Didier of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

and after three decades of organic farming

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

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

Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Jasnieres Coteaux du Loire Blanc Premices 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER so this is Northern RhoneThe 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,