The wines of Bellivière

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The range of wines varies with the year: the natural conditions permitting the development of botrytis in some years orientate the style of the wines from dry to noble-rotted sweet wine.
In all cases, we refuse any “chaptalization”, trusting our soil to be able to produce ripe fruit every year and facilitating that by the culture of the vines. In this respect, we are members of Sapros association whose target is to promote naturally concentrated wines.

WHITE COTEAUX DU LOIR :

- « Vieilles vignes éparses » is a wine produced from vines aged over 50 to 80 years.
- « L'Effraie » is a wine produced from young vines.
- « Haut-Rasné » is a wine made with young vines and resulting from the unique “terroir” Haut-Rasné, able to capture noble rot (botrytis).
- Exceptional years allow us to obtain rarer mellow or botrytised wines such as « Philosophale », harvested by selective picking with over 18% vol. on the oldest parcels of Coteaux du Loir.

JASNIÈRES :

- « Calligramme » is made with vines over 50 years.
- « Les Rosiers » is a wine assembled from all young vines.
- « Discours de Tuf » is a mellow wine resulting from selective harvesting.
- In favourable years, the very late selective harvesting gives birth to « Elixir de Tuf » at a minimum 20% volume potential.

RED COTEAUX DU LOIR :

- « Le Rouge-Gorge » derives from the Pineau d'Aunis grape. The maximum yield is 25hl/ha in order to obtain enough fruit in difficult years.
- « Hommage à Louis Derré » is a wine created in 2000 produced from vines aged over 80 to 100 years. This wine combines the habitual work of extraction with concentration and complexity due to the age of the vines.

SPECIAL WINES :

- Those whose existence is due to our own imagination and the natural conditions of the soil. They derive exclusively from the exploration of the enormous potential offered by Pineau d'Aunis.
- According to the potential degree at harvest, we vary the rosé wine making from mellow (« La Salamandre » en 2001) to sweet (« Aurore d'Automne » en 1999 et 2001).
We are working more restrictively on the elaboration of a ‘vin de paille’ (made from dried grapes) of Pineau d'Aunis, history tells us that such wines existed in the Loire valley in the past.