Eric Nicolas' Editorial

Dear friends and Clients of Bellivière,

To produce our wine. This creative urge is at the heart of everything we do, of all our actions. This has been our driving force since we began the estate. One thing leading to another, hard work, contemplation and luck helping out sometimes, have all led us towards wines that are ever more expressive.

2007 was a year when the vines and their grapes received constant attention, the work we carried out was very effective, thanks to the infusions designed to preserve the harvest. Both white and red wines show signs of being very promising in sustained richness and balance, moving towards a dry profile.

Our wish to look after our vines, and the soil which nourishes them, long term needs, our never ending search for expressiveness and pleasure on the palate, the duty to remember, all these factors have led us inevitably to choose biodynamics throughout the estate and for all our wines..

For many years we have always listened to the experienced advice of our colleagues and friends in the business, and will use an advisor to help us master the variables. We try to work with discernment...

We have high hopes of this new search for mastery, it is a new major project. Apart from the work demanded by all these attentions, it is nature which rules the overall direction taken by our styles of wines. This random dictatorship of nature combines with all the wisdom we can muster heart and soul, in the air and in the soil, to plan the destiny of our unique style of wines.

We are seeking, willy nilly, to enrich all that, to combine it all completely, so that our wines are also the evocation and the palpable realisation of an aspect of our dreams.

With best wishes, we hope to see you soon.