Domaine Bellegarde, Jurancon Sec 'La Pierre Blanche', 2024 GROWER smoked herb

smoked herb

Ian Naude works almost exclusively with old Cape bush vines

and the kind of tension that makes Loire whites so compelling

Decant two hours

There’s an intriguing note of forest floor and spice that adds complexity

Domaine Bellegarde, Jurancon Sec 'La Pierre Blanche', 2024 GROWER smoked herbA 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