Domaine de Belle Vue

$16.00750ml

Pair racy and minerally Loire whites with local seafood and piquant vegetable dishes.

Perfect with grilled octopus or striped bass.

Match with clams and mussels

or goat cheese and black bean enchiladas.

Eyes:

Pale Yellow

Nose:

Medium Intensity, youthful, grapefruit, mineral, pear

Mouth:

Light-Medium Bodied, dry, medium-high acidity, moderate-high intensity, medium finish, citrus fruits, stone fruits, almond

With nearly a dozen varieties being farmed biodynamically at Domaine de Bell Vue, a 20 mile stone (or oyster shell) throw from the Atlantic coastline, Jerome Bretaudeau knows it's the soil that makes the wine. His Sauvignon Gris, the pink-skinned mutant cousin of Sauvignon Blanc and grows in a mixture of gabbro and granite/schist, is produced with natural yeast and low sulfites.