Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Coteaux du Loire Rouge-Gorge 2022 040926OFFER These days his daughter Anne

These days his daughter Anne is fully in charge

and fine-grained without the heaviness you might fear

De Pez is one of the oldest estates in Saint-Estèphe

it's the aromatic white to pour when you want to drink a little above your pay grade

Fermented with native yeasts and aged in a mix of stainless steel and oak

Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Coteaux du Loire Rouge-Gorge 2022 040926OFFER These days his daughter AnneOne of the world's definitive expressions of Pineau d'Aunis, the Loir valley's great local red grape. It can look delicate in the glass and then arrive with wild strawberry, flowers, herbs and a burst of cracked black pepper. This is the Loir no 'e', a tributary north of Tours where a catastrophic frost in 1956 wiped out most of the vineyards and many were never replanted; Eric and Christine Nicolas came from outside the wine world in the 1990s,