Highlights
375ml / Half-Bottle- The Vacherons without question are Sancerre’s leading winemaking clan. From the family’s pioneering work in identifying and exploring the region’s top terroirs to their leading position in biodynamic viticulture, there are few if any artisans today in Sancerre as exacting or as respected. The estate’s peerless older vines, planted and cultivated by generations of family members, are cared for fastidiously. Yet it is the their single vineyard wines—terroir-based selections recalling the painstaking work of Burgundian monks in the Côte d’Or—that have shown the world the heights and complexity that Sancerre can reach.
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).
Hand-harvested. Fermented on indigenous yeasts in a combination of cement and stainless steel tank; aged in tank. Unfiltered.
Aromas of grapefruit zest and gunflint. Flavors of lemons and limes, sea salt, crisp pears.
Tasting Notes
Green apple, citrus, gooseberry, grapefruit, nettle, green tomato and green pepper; minerality, herbaceous freshness and vibrant acidity
- BrandDomaine Vacheron
- CountryFrance
- RegionLoire Valley
- TypeWhite Wine
- Size375ml/Half-Bottle
- Grapes Sauvignon Blanc
- Winemaking Unfiltered or unfined
- Winemaking Native yeast or wild fermented
- Winemaking Natural
- SKU 210000041177
Grapes & winemaking
- Grapes
- 100% Sauvignon Blanc
- Farming
- Organically farmed — product/vintage
Biodynamically farmed — product/vintage
Certified organic production; certifier unspecified
Certified biodynamic production; certifier unspecified - Winemaking
- Natural wine ; Unfined — product/vintage ; Unfiltered — product/vintage ; Native yeast — product/vintage