Clos des Breteches Les Belouines 2023Region: Loire Valley, France Appellation: Vin de France Color Style: White Wine Grapes: Chenin Blanc 12% abv 100% chenin on Spilite and Rhyolite 2,582 bottles made

and wines are racked just once before bottling according to the lunar calendar

Corvinone gives glycerine and vibrant freshness

Grapes: 50% Pinot Auxerrois

Very smoky and herbal at first

fried chicken

Madrecuixe (Agave karwinskii var

and Petit Courbu

This foot-slope vineyard faces the Danube to the north and is a classical river-bed soil of gravel with deposits of paragneiss and a rich topsoil of humus and loess

There is a whiff of exotic spice sitting atop the ripe aromas of black raspberry coulis

The grapes come from vines that are over 40 years old

50% Chardonnay

Appellation: Mâcon-Villages