{"id":816,"date":"2012-10-15T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T09:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belletwine.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2012-10-15T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T09:46:33","slug":"bellet-aoc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/belletwine.com\/?page_id=816","title":{"rendered":"Bellet AOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>History<\/h3>\n<p>Pierre Thom\u00e9 of the Ch\u00e2teau de Cr\u00e9mat became president of the Syndicat of the Vignerons of Bellet and together with the Baron de Charnac\u00e9, helped introduce the appellation of Bellet in 1941.<\/p>\n<p>In 1986, there were 21 grape growers, but only 7 who vinified wine.<\/p>\n<h3>Geographical Delimitation<\/h3>\n<p>The appellation technically covers 650ha, although with only about 70ha under vine. Some fifteen family vineyards and numerous smallholdings are interspersed amongst suburban villas and greenhouses growing cut flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbourhoods in Bellet include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Les S\u00e9oules<\/li>\n<li>Le Pilon<\/li>\n<li>Le Grand Bois<\/li>\n<li>Golfan<\/li>\n<li>Les Cappans<\/li>\n<li>Saint Roman de Bellet<\/li>\n<li>La Tour<\/li>\n<li>Candau<\/li>\n<li>Saquier<\/li>\n<li>Serre-Long<\/li>\n<li>Cr\u00e9mat<\/li>\n<li>Cantagalet<\/li>\n<li>La Pouncia<\/li>\n<li>Saint-Saveur<\/li>\n<li>Gros Pins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Location<\/h3>\n<p>The vineyards are situated high on the hills at between 200-300m, behind the town of Nice, overlooking the Var river valley to the west and the Magnan valley to the east.<\/p>\n<p>From south to north, the southern vineyards are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Collet de Bovis website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vin-de-bellet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collet de Bovis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Domaine de Toasc website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.domainedetoasc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Domaine de Toasc<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Domaine Saint Jean website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saintjean-bellet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Domaine St Jean<\/a>\u00a0with vineyards scattered around Bellet<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Chateau de Cr\u00e9mat\" href=\"https:\/\/belletwine.com\/ac-bellet-commercial-vineyards\/chateau-de-cremat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ch\u00e2teau de Cr\u00e9mat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Clos Nicea\" href=\"https:\/\/belletwine.com\/ac-bellet-commercial-vineyards\/clos-nicea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clos Nicea<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.625;\">In the middle, on the eastern slopes<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Le Clos St Vincent website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clos-st-vincent.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Clos St Vincent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Via Julia-Augusta website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.viajulia.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via Julia-Augusta<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Domaine Augier (no longer AOC Bellet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the middle of the western slopes along the Chemin de Saquier<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Le Domaine de Vinceline website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.domainedevinceline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Domaine de Vinceline<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Domaine de la Source website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.domainedelasource.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Domaine de la Source<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Max Gilli, Chemin de St Roman de Bellet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the northern end of Chemin de Saquier<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Ch\u00e2teau de Bellet website\" href=\"http:\/\/chateau-de-bellet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ch\u00e2teau de Bellet<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Coteaux de Bellet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Climate<\/h3>\n<p>The climate is Mediterranean with 2700 hours of sun a year and 838 mm of annual rainfall. The heat is moderated with big diurnal variations caused by the cooling breezes of the Mistral and Tramontane reaching the hills from the sea and the nearby Var river valley, and cool breezes coming down from the Alps.<\/p>\n<h3>Harvest<\/h3>\n<p>Harvesting is around the end of September. Due to the layout of the land, this\u00a0is manual. The legal yield limit is 40hl\/ha.<\/p>\n<h3>Vinification<\/h3>\n<p>No chaptalisation is allowed. Alcohol was 10.5% for red and ros\u00e9 and 11% for white in mid 1980\u2019s. Ros\u00e9 \u2013 maximum sugar level 3g\/l. NB lower limit than Provence as of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>White wine used to be the principal wine style. Bellet\u2019s reputation for white wines relied on the fact that they were not oxidised like other southern white wines, due largely to the large diurnal temperature variation.<\/p>\n<p>The mix has evolved; by 2008, if not earlier, wine production is more evenly divided between the three colours. In 2009 ros\u00e9 was 25% of production.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008 only around six domains were large enough to support full-time work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Pierre Thom\u00e9 of the Ch\u00e2teau de Cr\u00e9mat became president of the Syndicat of the Vignerons of Bellet and together with the Baron de Charnac\u00e9, helped introduce the appellation of Bellet in 1941. In 1986, there were 21 grape growers, but only 7 who vinified wine. Geographical Delimitation The appellation technically covers 650ha, although with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-816","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belletwine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belletwine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belletwine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belletwine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belletwine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/belletwine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belletwine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}