Bellevue (Jerome Bretaudeau), VdF Blanc "Theia", 2023 so120523_bordeaux expressing clarity and tension

expressing clarity and tension

crafts Promesa from 100% Moscatel grapes

just outside Saint-Joseph

The tannins

with just enough spice and minerality to keep it interesting

Bellevue (Jerome Bretaudeau), VdF Blanc "Theia", 2023 so120523_bordeaux expressing clarity and tensionJerome Bretaudeau has become one of Muscadet's cult figures, and Theia is a fine argument for why. It's Melon de Bourgogne grown on gabbro, the dark volcanic bedrock that gives this corner of the Loire its stony backbone, from vines planted in 1988 in Getigny. Bretaudeau farms organically and biodynamically, ferments on native yeasts, and raises the wine for eight months on the lees in concrete vats and foudres, bottling it without fining or