Winery of BELLIVIÈRE
winemaker Eric, Christine and Clément Nicolas
Region: Loire Valley
Town: Lhomme
Grape varieties Vineyards: Chenin, Pineau d'Aunis, Gamay
Surface Winery: 20 ha
Annual production: 40,000
Certification: Organic (AB Ecocert) and Biodynamic (Biodyvin)
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| Thanks to Eric Nicolas, fromWinery in Bellivière, the wines of Sarthe have returned to the finest tables after decades of denigration. In viticulture as in winemaking, rigour is the rule at Winery : Eric and Christine Nicolas obtained the Ecocert label in 2008 and the vineyard is partly biodynamic. Low yields, scraped and ploughed soils, the harvest is manual. A wide variety of terroirs characterize the Winery on tuffeau soils, which Chenin is particularly fond of, or those flinty clays ideal for Pineau d'Aunis. For the whites, only Chenin (up to 80 years old for old vines), the juice is vinified separately in barrels of 1 to 3 wines and then aged on the lees for up to 18 months. Depending on the vintage, the noble rot more or less attacks the grapes and this is how Eric Nicolas can offer us a wide range of white wines from dry to sweet. | The reds, Pineau d'Aunis vines with yields of 25 hectolitres per hectare (some of them 100 years old), are vinified in vats with punching down to obtain beautiful deep colours, then aged in barrels and bottled without filtration for smoother wines. Eric also tries his hand, depending on what nature offers him - i.e. depending on the vintage - at vinification of sweet rosé wines or a Pineau d'Aunis as a straw wine. After years in electronic maintenance, oenology studies in Montpellier and a short stay in a cooperative cellar in the Var, the Nicolas settled in 1995 in the Loir valley in Touraine on the Winery in Bellivière with 3.5 hectares. They bought a few plots of land in Jasnières and today own 15 hectares spread over 55 plots of land... in 5 villages sometimes 10 kilometres apart. |
