Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Jasnieres Coteaux du Loire Blanc Premices 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER it's a white built for

it's a white built for the table and the cellar

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

The palate is lush and creamy

passion fruit

Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Jasnieres Coteaux du Loire Blanc Premices 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER it's a white built forThe 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,