Jerome Bretaudeau Domaine de Bellevue Pinot Noir Statera 2023 CS20230718 with the chalky tension you'd

with the chalky tension you'd want from the appellation

Bottled only in the best years

Native yeasts

The wine is deeply colored

This ancient volcanic activity created what one geologist called "a Disneyland for geologists"—a patchwork of acidic porphyritic soils with pH levels as low as 4 and high iron content that gives the wines a distinctive ferrous minerality

Jerome Bretaudeau Domaine de Bellevue Pinot Noir Statera 2023 CS20230718 with the chalky tension you'dPinot Noir in Muscadet sounds like a fever dream, but Jerome Bretaudeau plants it on granite and pink and white quartz and the results are stunning. Statera (Latin for balance) is delicate, perfumed, and silky, with the texture of fine Burgundy filtered through a distinctly Loire prism. Biodynamic farming, indigenous yeast fermentation, aging in barrel with minimal sulfur, no fining or filtration. Production is tiny and the wine is in serious demand