Domaine Bellegarde, Jurancon Sec 'La Pierre Blanche', 2024 GROWER Ian Naude works almost exclusively

Ian Naude works almost exclusively with old Cape bush vines

smoked herb

and the kind of tension that makes Loire whites so compelling

One of Saint-Joseph's most coveted bottles

There’s massive structure here

Domaine Bellegarde, Jurancon Sec 'La Pierre Blanche', 2024 GROWER Ian Naude works almost exclusivelyA 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