Sancerre blanc 2010
Sancerre rouge 2009
After a cold, restorative winter and an average summer, the 2010 harvest began a week later than normal. Sauvignon Blancs from this vintage are delightful – aromatic and fruity, offering lovely typicité and great freshness, perhaps resembling 2002 and 2008 in style.
Your Sancerre blanc 2010 comes from a number of different plots throughout the region, encompassing clay, chalk, limestone and flinty soils. Carefully blended, the wines are racy and mineral with a lovely crispness of fruit. The super-fresh vintage is a youthful green in colour with a perfumed nose of fresh pea and capsicum. The palate is rapier-like and classically steely with a delicious grapefruit and herbaceous tang, a touch of mint leaf and a long refreshing finish. After a year in bottle it takes on weight with a lovely stone fruit and mineral quality. It is an incredibly versatile food wine, accompanying delicate fish dishes, summer salads, oriental cuisine or goat’s cheese – particularly the local crottin de Chavignol. It goes without saying that it is also delicious as an aperitif!
Your Sancerre rouge 2009 is a lighter more floral alternative to burgundy. It is ruby red in colour with summer fruits and herbs on the nose. The flavours are elegant and attractive with strawberry and cherry fruit and a soft, creamy texture. It is best drunk between two and four years and makes the perfect picnic wine!