Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Jasnieres Coteaux du Loire Blanc Premices 2023 MH this *Brut Zero* pairs beautifully

this *Brut Zero* pairs beautifully with raw oysters

ripe vintage in Pomerol

Then she married Erich Krutzler

wind-battered

Domaine de Belliviere (Eric Nicolas) Jasnieres Coteaux du Loire Blanc Premices 2023 MH this *Brut Zero* pairs beautifullyThe 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,