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The de Ladoucette family has been based here at Château du Nozet for generations and is among the largest landholders in the appellation. Baron de L is made only in years the house judges worthy of it, from older vines on the flintier parcels, and is held back before release rather than sold on the heels of the harvest. Its tall, hand-blown bottle has become one of the more recognisable shapes in the Loire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe at 10 to 12 degrees with turbot, poached salmon or a mild goat's cheese; unusually for Sauvignon Blanc, it takes well to age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Sauvignon Blanc found its footing here after phylloxera destroyed the older Pinot Noir plantings, and the white wine appellation was recognised in 1936. Comte Lafond is the Sancerre label of the de Ladoucette family, whose base is at Château du Nozet, just across the river at Pouilly, and it is drawn from fruit grown across the appellation rather than from a single slope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe at 10 to 12 degrees with goat's cheese, above all the Crottin de Chavignol made in the village up the road, or with shellfish and grilled fish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The fumé of the name is generally taken to refer to that flinty ground rather than to smoke or to oak, of which there is none here. Pascal Jolivet established his house in Sancerre in 1987 and works across both appellations, favouring indigenous yeasts, long cool fermentations in stainless steel and as little handling as possible, on the view that the vineyard rather than the cellar should set the terms. The appellation is a good deal smaller than Sancerre across the river, and its wines are seen less often outside France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe well chilled with goat's cheese, oysters, asparagus or grilled white fish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The parcels are mostly slopes on the Chavignol hillside terroirs of Les Chasseignes, Les Longues Fins and La Rue de Veaux, which distinguishes the wine from the bulk of Sancerre, grown on the more fertile and productive soils of the plains. Fruit from younger vines on the celebrated terroirs of La Grande Côte, Clos de Beaujeu and Monts Damnés also goes into the blend. The juice ferments spontaneously and rests for eight months on lees in tank, with a small volume in a single large wooden cask. Boulay's proposition is that Sauvignon Blanc here works as Chardonnay does in Burgundy, as the messenger rather than the message, and this wine bears that out at the least expensive point in the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReady on release and good for five years or so. Serve at 10-12°C with goat's cheese, grilled prawns or a herb omelette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Alphonse Mellot farms it biodynamically and crops it low. Half the wine ferments in large wooden fermenters and is raised in oak casks, while the balance ferments and rests in traditional concrete vats before the two are blended. All of it then spends roughly 12 months on fine lees, which builds the deep, pulpy texture the wine is known for. The wood is there for structure rather than flavour, and the finished wine unfolds more like a white Burgundy than the brisk, tank-made Sancerre most drinkers are used to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood now and will develop over five to eight years. Serve at 11-12°C with grilled fish, roast chicken or a crottin de Chavignol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Boulay is one of the reference growers of Chavignol, the hamlet whose steep Kimmeridgian slopes give Sancerre its most structured wines. This cuvée comes from roughly 0.8 hectares of vines between 35 and 50 years old, hand-harvested and macerated on skins for 24 hours to draw colour. Press wine and free-run juice are fermented separately with wild yeasts, malolactic conversion is blocked to keep tension, and no oak is used. The result is a rosé built on clarity and grip rather than sweetness, with red fruit, watermelon and citrus peel over a silken palate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink young, within two or three years, with grilled prawns, charcuterie or a summer salad, served at 8 to 10°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The Comtesse lieu-dit has been considered the best single terroir of Chavignol for centuries; Thibaut Boulay traces the first mention of Montdampni to documents held by the Abbaye de Saint-Satur in 1252, and by the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878 its wines were already served at the leading tables of northern France. The parcel was only grafted after 1945, having been the last ungrafted white vineyard in France. The soil is pure Kimmeridgian limestone with a mere 30 to 40 centimetres of topsoil over bedrock, which absorbs heat by day and radiates it at night; the site is also cooler and less exposed, so ripeness and freshness arrive together, giving a finer and more restrained wine than a typical Monts-Damnés.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFine now and capable of ten years or more. 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The soils are pure Kimmeridgian limestone, and because the site runs cool the fruit is picked late, which brings density and precision together on the palate. The vines are relatively young by this domaine's standards, though a good twenty years all the same, and they express the limestone with real intensity. Vinification and ageing take place in three- and four-year-old barrels, so the oak is well in the background. The style is more openly expressive than the Monts-Damnés cuvées while keeping the tension and mineral drive that define Chavignol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now and good for eight to ten years. Serve at 10 to 12°C with oysters, roast fish or a fresh goat's cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Boulay farms two parcels in this terroir, one inside the original clos established by the monks of Beaujeu in the Middle Ages, historically known as Le Grand Clos, which is why he labels the wine Clos de Beaujeu rather than the more common Cul de Beaujeu. Vine age ranges from 30 to a remarkable 110 years. The soils are rocky, limestone-rich and strewn with fossils, and a second parcel closer to the village runs at a 60% gradient, making both difficult to work. The wine ferments spontaneously and rests ten months in large upright cask and older 300-litre barrels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTightly wound on release and worth five to ten years in the cellar. Serve at 10 to 12°C with grilled fish, roast chicken or crottin de Chavignol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Monts-Damnés is its best-known slope, and Gérard Boulay farms 45-year-old vines on one of its sharpest inclines, a south-facing parcel on terres blanches, the white chalky clay and limestone that gives these wines their spine. The plot sits directly alongside Vatan’s Clos la Néore. Being one of the warmest sites in Chavignol, the fruit ripens fully, and Boulay works to keep that ripeness in balance with tension. The wine is fermented and raised in three- to four-year-old Tronçais casks bought from Domaine Rousseau in Gevrey-Chambertin, then finished in larger cask before bottling, so the oak builds texture rather than flavour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApproachable now but built to gain over five to eight years in the cellar. Serve at 10-12°C with sashimi, ceviche or grilled scallops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Edmond is drawn from the oldest vines on its southerly flank, where the Saint-Doulchard marls give way to weathered limestone rocks known locally as calcaires à astartes. The estate is farmed biodynamically, and yields for this cuvée are cropped lower still than for the Dix-Neuf. Fermentation and maturation take place in 600-litre barrels, with a portion raised in a 2,000-litre egg-shaped Taransaud Ovum, and the wine spends 10 to 14 months on fine lees. The result is a structured, savoury white built on depth and grip rather than the aromatic lift usually associated with the grape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese wines rarely peak before five to ten years and can run to 20 or 30. Serve at 10-12°C with roast chicken, veal or a plate of hard alpine cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The Mellot family has held vines there for more than 50 years but only began bottling them separately in 2008. The four hectares are spread across five parcels, all on Kimmeridgian soils, two of them on the revered terroirs of Le Cul de Beaujeu and Les Monts-Damnés. Vine age runs from 40 to 77 years and the old plants crop lightly. The domaine farms biodynamically. The wine fermented spontaneously, was aged in large, mature oak casks and bottled without filtration, which puts it closer in construction to white Burgundy than to a tank-fermented Sancerre. The name was Alphonse Mellot Senior's tongue-in-cheek comment on where he felt Chavignol stood in the Sancerre order; his friend Gérard Boulay, who lives in the village, was only mildly amused.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt needs another two or three years to show properly and will keep well beyond that. 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This cuvée takes only its oldest vines, at roughly 100 years, and yields are pushed to the lower end of grand cru Burgundy levels. The domaine is farmed biodynamically. The wine fermented and aged for twelve months in 2,000-litre tronconique wooden tanks before a further spell in steel on lees, and only about 500 cases are made each year. With its stablemate Edmond it stands as the antithesis of textbook modern Sancerre: extract-rich and tightly wound, built more like a white Burgundy than a Loire Sauvignon Blanc, yet carrying the racy acid core of a fine Riesling or Chenin. Candied citrus, gingerbread and iodine sit behind that structure. It is among the most distinctive whites made anywhere from the variety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt needs several years and should keep for a decade beyond that. 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The soils are ancient Saint-Doulchard marls, part of the same Kimmeridgian chain that runs through Chablis, and the estate works them biodynamically at low yields. Around half the wine ferments in large wooden fermenters and is raised in oak casks, with the balance fermented and matured in traditional concrete vats before blending. It then ages on fine lees for roughly twelve months, which builds the deep, pulpy texture the cuvée is known for without blunting its drive. The style has more in common with a good Chablis than with the lighter tank-fermented Sancerre most drinkers encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking now and worth five to eight years, longer in this format. Serve at 10-12°C with grilled fish, roast chicken or a chèvre chaud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Mellot's plantings in La Moussière are old and closely spaced, and yields are held down to levels a Burgundian would recognise from a good grand cru. The estate farms biodynamically. This cuvée ferments in 60-hectolitre wooden vats, beginning with a cold maceration of five to ten days before alcoholic fermentation with punchdowns, then goes into young ex-Burgundy oak for 10 to 18 months. The result is linear and supple, closer in build to a fine Côte de Beaune red than to the light Sancerre rouge of old, with fine-boned tannins and a chalky structure underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorth three to five years before opening and good for a decade. Serve at 16°C with roast duck, veal or a mushroom and thyme tart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Those silex soils suggest a kinship with Pouilly-Fumé over the river, but the vines do not have to dig far before they reach pure limestone, and the wine reflects both. The vineyard covers 1.9 hectares planted at 9,000 vines to the hectare; Vacheron and Gitton Père also hold parcels here. Mellot farms biodynamically and picks by hand. Fermentation takes place in 13-hectolitre tronconique casks, after which the wine spends twelve months on fine lees. Set beside the domaine's La Moussière, Les Romains gives racier acidity and more lime and citrus. The palate is firm yet fleshy, with substantial texture over a vibrant mineral backbone and a long, focused, chalky finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now and good for six to eight years. Serve with grilled fish, oysters or roast chicken at 10–12°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The Mellot family has been in Sancerre since the sixteenth century, and La Moussière is the domaine's home vineyard, a large amphitheatre of Saint-Doulchard marls on the edge of the town. The estate is farmed biodynamically, with horses used on the steeper parcels. Petite Moussière comes from the younger vines within that site. The aim is a more open, approachable style than the Moussière rouge proper, so the fruit is macerated more gently and the wine spends less time in barrel, keeping the emphasis on brightness and lift rather than structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApproachable on release and worth keeping for five or six years. Serve at 16-18°C with roast duck, mushroom dishes or a plate of charcuterie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Boulay first bottled his parcel on its own in 2010, and it has quickly become one of the heavyweights of the range. Because the site is cool, the fruit comes in last, and the combination of late picking and limestone gives density with unusual precision. The vines are a good 20 years old, still young by this domaine's standards, yet they already express the site with real intensity. The wine is vinified and aged in three- and four-year-old barrels, so oak plays a supporting role only. Beside the Monts-Damnés bottling, La Côte is the more expressive and open of the two, though it keeps the tension and mineral character that mark everything Boulay makes, and it closes long and chalky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood now but better with three to five years. Serve with grilled langoustines, roast chicken or a goat's cheese soufflé at 10–12°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Sancerre's vineyards spread across chalky limestone, clay-limestone and flinty silex soils, which give the wines their precision and mineral cut. This is the domaine's signature Sancerre, made in the elegant, balanced house style: dry, with natural fruit and a clear mineral thread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eServe well chilled with goat's cheese (Crottin de Chavignol is the local match), grilled fish, asparagus or a classic chicken and tarragon dish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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