Les Arches de Belliviere Bille En Bulle 2022 750ml

95% Grenache/5% Pineau d'Aunis. "Bille en Bulle" is a new wine in Bellivière's "Les Arches de Bellivière" line-up, which was created in recent years to give the Nicolas family an opportunity to expand beyond their estate bottlings. The Grenache vines in this case are in Ventoux in the southern Rhône on sandy, gravelly soils. They range from 10 to 30 years old and are farmed biodynamically. The Bellivière team harvests them by hand and trucks the fruit back to the home cellar in the Loire. Here, the bunches are destemmed and the must fermented spontaneously in vat with regular punchdowns over 3 weeks. When the wine is dry, it is bottled and dosed with a small amount of estate Pineau d'Aunis must to initiate a second fermentation to full dryness. The wine ages for 7 months sur lattes and is then disgorged by hand.