Bellivière 'Prémices' Chenin Blanc Coteaux du Loir 2022 Spain

Bellivière 'Prémices' Chenin Blanc Coteaux du Loir 2022 SpainWeve often said when tasting and drinking the wines of Domaine de Bellivire that they are textbook wines for learning the appellation of Jasnires, widely considered one of the Loires greatest white wine designations. Theyre just very transparent wines, speaking with elegance of the clay, flint, and tuffeaux rock that form their slick, persistent core. Chenin Blancs softer golden hues dont disappoint here, with pretty autumnal stuff, and the dash of

This Penedès white wine is from the Can Suriol winery's side label of wines called 'Azimut

with low tannin

and not ruined by over-ripeness or new oak

small-batch artisanal mezcal

as opposed to the hefty dark reds that were common in the region only 10 or so years before

so it isn't pink in the glass per se

without makeup

rendering a volcanic

fermented in a mix of older French oak and stainless steel

) with nearly 30kg of fruit needed for a single liter of this unbelievable eau de vie

They're then macerated for six days in the distillery's entry-level grape eau-de-vie

with a slightly dense