Sancerre Blanc
Sourced from hillside vineyards around the town of Sancerre, with a mix of chalk and flint (silex) soils. About 20% of the blend is wine from a selection of single-vineyard plots, which gives more complexity (also some wood influence, as the domaine’s single-vineyard Sancerre Blanc wines are aged in larger wooden casks). The grapes are hand-harvested. Fermentation is with indigenous yeasts in a combination of cement and stainless steel tanks; it is then aged in tank and unfiltered. The finished wine offers aromas of grapefruit zest and gunflint, and flavours of lemons and limes, sea salt and crisp pears. Pair this with salads, goat cheese, oysters and other fresh shellfish.
Domaine Vacheron
The Vacherons are without question Sancerre’s leading winemaking family. Their Sauvignon Blanc is largely planted on silex soils, which is a clay and limestone base, topped with flint. This type of soil gives the wines a particular minerality and saltiness, as well as a trademark smoky quality. The white cru wines are all aged for 12 months in large, neutral French oak barrels. All Vacheron wines are now certified biodynamic (Demeter).
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Sancerre Blanc
Sourced from hillside vineyards around the town of Sancerre, with a mix of chalk and flint (silex) soils. About 20% of the blend is wine from a selection of single-vineyard plots, which gives more complexity (also some wood influence, as the domaine’s single-vineyard Sancerre Blanc wines are aged in larger wooden casks). The grapes are hand-harvested. Fermentation is with indigenous yeasts in a combination of cement and stainless steel tanks; it is then aged in tank and unfiltered. The finished wine offers aromas of grapefruit zest and gunflint, and flavours of lemons and limes, sea salt and crisp pears. Pair this with salads, goat cheese, oysters and other fresh shellfish.
The Vacherons are without question Sancerre’s leading winemaking family. Their Sauvignon Blanc is largely planted on silex soils, which is a clay and limestone base, topped with flint. This type of soil gives the wines a particular minerality and saltiness, as well as a trademark smoky quality. The white cru wines are all aged for 12 months in large, neutral French oak barrels. All Vacheron wines are now certified biodynamic (Demeter).
