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It’s amazing how many brilliant Pinos there are in the Sauvignon stronghold of Sancerre! Domaine Vacheron – Sancerre Rouge “Belle Dame” is one of the absolute killers year after year: ultra precise, slightly smoky, herbal flavor, small red berries, noble wood, forest floor, porcini mushrooms and cigar boxes. On the palate, things go on like this: delicate, polished tannin, salty-chalky, great length with a very elegant and light structure.
The Sancerre rouge presents itself expressively and excitingly in the nose, as first one perceives clear incense notes, followed by the smell of dried herbs like rosemary, thyme, juniper berry and clove. Floral scents like ivy, nettle and elderflower are also detectable. With the necessary oxygen contact, fine fruit aromas of cherry, cassis and wild raspberry join in, adding a feminine and fruity touch to its cool, distinctive and fresh attack.
Animating and refreshing, it presents itself on the tongue. Clear mineral notes, a fine herbal spice and a stimulating acidity and a moderate alcohol determine the taste picture. A red wine, which harmonizes slightly chilled excellently with aromatic dishes and fish.
On the palate the Guigne-Chèvres a tightly woven and tense web of bright citrus aromas, herbs and rocky notes, lime zest and white pepper. The acidity is beguilingly present, demanding and punchy, the minerality vibrant, the stoniness and saltiness additionally lively, mouthwatering and delicious. Thereby the Sancerre currently still quite shy and will need a few more years to fully develop. He will definitely need a decade, maybe even a decade and a half.
Comparing the 2019 Sancerre Chambrates with his neighbor, the Sancerre Le Paradiswhich comes from a similar, but not the same terroir, the Chambrates a little more yellow-fruited than the more green to light yellow-fruited Le Paradis, just as if a few limes had been taken away and replaced by kumquats and the green apples by yellow ones and maybe even a few slices of apricot. But at the same time also remains the Chambrates on the energetic, pure looking and straight Page.
On the palate, this impression continues seamlessly. The Chambrates is an immensely elegant, delicate and yet pure and demanding Sancerre with pressure and vitality, freshness and deep minerality. Notes of cassis and gooseberry show up here and are interwoven with citrus notes, salt and crisp fresh stone fruit. The Chambrates vibrates with tension, but at the same time seems strong and deep, long and persistent, as sinewy as a long-distance runner. One can easily trust him with this endurance for the next decade.
Domaine Vacheron is one of Sancerre’s greatest estates. The wines are consistently delicious and somehow manage to please both wine geeks and newbies year after year. Simply put, sauvignon blanc doesn’t get much better than this. Le Pavé is an organic wine from a small plot of some of Vacheron’s best land, with fresh flavors of tart apple, lemon, and salt. Drink it whenever you’re thirsty and want to treat yourself.
The 2019 Sancerre Le Paradis presents itself as exceedingly fresh, straighter. The Sauvignon Blanc is bright and already powerful on the nose. Beside many citric notes from lime over lemon to grapefruit a breath of flint and smoke shows up, but only as a coating, not as a formative element. In addition, there are chalky-chalky notes, a little green apple and herbs.
What one can only guess at in the fragrance becomes obvious on the palate. It is the pure power and intensity of this very mineral, purist, punchy and cool. Sancerre. The Le Paradis appears pure, bright and resonant on the palate. At the same time, the energy is bubbling and the Sauvignon Blanc seems as clear as a mountain stream. Besides the citric fruit, there are iodine-salty notes, which of course provides additional drinking flow. Only on the palate a little bit of cassis and elderberry becomes recognizable, but this remains very fine as well as moderate and is offset with a very slight sweetness. The Le Paradis pushes forward unflinchingly and on and on into the long, straight Finals.
Les Romains is a flint terroir located in the eastern part of Sancerre. Here the soils have a strong resemblance to the terroir across the Loire river in Pouilly-Fumé. There is a definite smoky and flinty quality to the wine that is backed with a piquant and delicate citrus fruitiness reminiscent of grapefruit.
A hilltop town, Sancerre lies to the east of the Loire region, facing Pouilly-Fumé opposite the river. Known for its racy, mineral, and pungent expression of Sauvignon Blanc, this is textbook Sancerre from probably the best producer in the region. Fabulously aromatic nose, concentrated gooseberry fruit flavours, all carefully balanced by a rich smokiness and steely dry palate. A mineral, elegant and long finish.
The classic match to white goats’ cheese, this wine is also a brilliant partner to smoked salmon and poached trout.
A fine Pinot Noir that surprises by an intense bouquet of red fruits blending juicy notes of raspberry, freshly crushed strawberry and vanilla. The palate has a balanced structure and a lovely concentration. The finish is clean, precise, pleasantly underlined by more ripe fruit, delicately followed by salty notes which admirably recall the continental origins of this PinotNoir. Can be kept for between 5 and 10 years.
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