Pascal Bellier 2021 Cour-Cheverney Romorantin

The Wine

The grape known as Romorantin produces lithe and delicious white wines, but climate change has caused it to take on an an aromatic blowsiness that has turned off its fomer fans! However, the famously cool and difficult 2021 vintage has produced a wine reminiscent of its old self - a steely, mineral-driven flavor profile whose honied nose hints at the gorgeous wine this will become if aged for a few years. But there is no need to wait.

Romorantin exists in miniscule quantities, its acreage shrinks each year in favor of the "international varieties" like Chardonnay. The world holds just 30 producers of Romorantin, all in this small village in the south of France!

I can't wait for you to try this wine.

The Winery

Cour-Cheverny is the appellation for the distinctive wines made from the Romorantin grape variety in a group of central Loire Valley vineyards between Tours and Orleans. 

Pascal and Veronique Bellier are the latest in a long line of Bellies to run this property. Typical of the young generation taking over in the region, they are adherents of Terra Vitis, a group of practical but forward-thinking growers practising “La Lutte Intégrée”, an essentially organic, but undogmatic, approach to viticulture.