Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Coteaux du Loire Rouge-Gorge 2022 051826OFFER The tannins are ripe and

The tannins are ripe and well integrated with a nice gritty texture making this a gorgeous southern style claret suitable for drinking over the next 3-5 years

The result is joyful

small production shochu made from locally grown produce like ginger

He works with a light touch: hand-harvesting

This is a mature

Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Coteaux du Loire Rouge-Gorge 2022 051826OFFER The tannins are ripe andOne 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,