Domaine Bellegarde, Jurancon Sec 'La Pierre Blanche', 2024 GROWER followed by thirty months in

followed by thirty months in large Slavonian and French oak botti

There’s massive structure here

2012 was a small

Gamay with ambition

and the kind of tension that makes Loire whites so compelling

Domaine Bellegarde, Jurancon Sec 'La Pierre Blanche', 2024 GROWER followed by thirty months inA dry Juranon with the kind of textural lift that makes you wonder why this appellation isn't more famous. Pascal Labasse has run Domaine Bellegarde since 1985, working twelve hectares outside the village of Monein in the Pyrenean foothills west of Pau; his son Maxime joined the estate in 2019. The Pierre Blanche is a single vineyard dry cuve, roughly 60% Petit Manseng and 40% Gros Manseng, fermented and aged in demi muids the small oak vessels that