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Domaine de l'Ours Bleu | Vin saumur
49730 Montsoreau · France
What you receive
A year of the vintage, in your hands.
01
Samples all season
Verijuice, post-ferment, barrel, and finished wine — shipped as the vintage takes shape.
02
A vote at every fork
Pick date, oak, and where the blend lands. The winemaker lays out the options; you choose.
03
Watch it live
Livestream access to harvest at dawn, the cellar, and bottling day, from anywhere.
04
Your bottles at release
Allocated pro-rata to your vines, with your Crew's name on the back label.
Vine to bottle
You’re there for the whole year.
We farm the vineyard every month of it. The filled stops are where a call comes to you: in a Crew you vote on it with the other members; on a whole-block lease it’s yours alone.
Jan
Dormant pruning
Cane counts set the size of the crop.
Feb
Cane tying
Mar
Bud break
Apr
Shoots grow
May
Flowering
Jun
Fruit set
Jul
Canopy
Aug
Véraison
A verijuice sample ships to you.
Sep
Harvest
Your call · Pick date
The winemaker brings the ripeness numbers and the forecast. Pick now, or wait.
Oct
Cap punch
A post-ferment sample ships to you. On a whole-block lease, fermentation is your call too.
Nov
Barrel down
Your call · Oak
How much new wood, and how long the wine spends in barrel.
Dec
Barrel samples
A barrel sample ships to you.
Then
Blend & bottle
Your call · The blend
Where the final wine lands inside the winemaker's range — then bottling day.
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The place
Why the wine tastes like 49730 Montsoreau.
Domaine de l'Ours Bleu is nestled in the picturesque Loire Valley, renowned for its rich history and exceptional terroir. The vineyard embraces the natural beauty of Montsoreau, crafting wines that reflect the unique limestone-rich soils and the gentle maritime climate of the region. With a focus on sustainable and organic viticulture, Domaine de l'Ours Bleu combines traditional winemaking techniques with modern innovation to produce wines of elegance and character.
- Region
- 49730 Montsoreau, France
- Soil
- Limestone-rich soils with gravelly clay loam, providing excellent drainage and mineral complexity.
- Climate
- Maritime climate with mild temperatures, averaging between 75-85°F during the growing season, with cool nights and moderate rainfall distributed throughout the year.
- Elevation
- 50-100 meters above sea level
- Varietals
- Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc
Follow the season
The 49730 Montsoreau growing year, by the numbers.
Weather is live and real, updated hourly. The season curve is typical for this region’s latitude and climate, replaced by your Crew’s readings once farming begins.
93% humidity · wind 5 km/h
552 growing degree days · last 90 days
Last 14 days · high / low °C
7-day forecast
Sun
14°
5°
Rain
Mon
13°
4°
63%
Tue
14°
7°
48%
Wed
16°
8°
79%
Thu
15°
10°
Light
Fri
16°
10°
58%
Sat
16°
9°
Light
Hemisphere
Right now
Harvest
Target ripeness
Pick called for dawn — fruit sampling at 20° Brix
3h ago
First bins in the cellar; cold soak started on the home block
8h ago
Crew vote open: whole-cluster fraction for the top lot
Yesterday
Juice numbers logged — pH 3.4, TA on target
Yesterday
Members invited to watch crush, live from the cellar
2 days ago
Example activity. Your Crew’s feed from 49730 Montsoreau appears here once the vintage begins.
BarrelLogicSeason progress
Typical · Apr–Oct
Typical ripeness
Typical · véraison to harvest
Beyond the bottle
Your vintage, end to end.
Lease it here, follow and steer it in BarrelLogic, and taste the wider world at BarrelTaster. Three sites, one vintage.
01 · Lease it
SplitVineyards
Your own vineyard. Without the work.
Your vines in 49730 Montsoreau and the wine they make — a few by the vine, or the whole block.
You're here02 · Follow & decide it
BarrelLogic
The operating system for modern winemakers.
Track your vintage from bud break to barrel — ripeness, the cellar, samples, and every winemaking vote — in the winery's operating system.
Visit BarrelLogic03 · Taste first
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The tasting room of the world.
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Tell us what you'd want
Nothing is open at Domaine de l'Ours Bleu | Vin saumur yet.
This page marks a vineyard we'd like to work with, not one we have an agreement with. Tell us what you'd want here. When enough people ask, we go to the estate with the demand already in hand — and you'll be the first to know what they say.
Buy with confidence
Owning a vintage, without the worry.
This listing opens with the 2027 vintage. Questions about delivery, timing, or how a season runs where you live? Ask before you commit.
Talk to us firstGuest checkout
No account until you pay. We create it from your email so you can follow your vines.
Secure checkout
Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card details.
We farm it
Pruning, canopy, harvest and the cellar work are done for you. The winemaking calls come to you.
Real provenance
Your bottles are tied to your vines, with your Crew's name on the back label. Lease the whole block and your own name goes on it.
A deposit, then the lease
A $500 deposit holds a whole-block lease while the winery confirms the yearly price and the three-year terms with you. It's fully refundable from your account until you sign.
Ships within the US
To most states. Outside the US: storage, pickup at the estate, or a US address.
No — check out as a guest. We create your account after you pay so you can follow your vines and manage shipments.
Make the 49730 Montsoreau vintage yours.
Buy a few vines or lease the whole block — no account needed until checkout. We farm it; you make the calls, and the wine is yours.
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