Jerome Bretaudeau Domaine de Bellevue Pinot Noir Statera 2023 CS20230718 Native yeasts

Native yeasts

Timut pepper

Piero’s dedication to biodynamic farming

and it drinks like it

is one of California's most storied old-vine sites — a place that

Jerome Bretaudeau Domaine de Bellevue Pinot Noir Statera 2023 CS20230718 Native yeastsPinot 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