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

Bachelet has run his four-hectare estate nearly alone since 1983

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

purity and poise

crafting a wine of rare power and refinement

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,