2024 Domaine François Crochet Sancerre, Loire Valley, France
ABOUT THIS WINE
Certified organic. 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Sauvignon Blanc vines planted on the three types of soil of the Appellation, that is 80 % chalky soil â locally known as âcaillottesâ, 10% clay chalky soil and 10% flint. The vines are 25 years old on average. Hand-harvested. Pressed and fermented with natural yeast. Aged on its fine lees for 9 months in stainless steel.
ABOUT THIS PRODUCER
In Sancerre, three villages have come to be associated with wines of distinction: Chavignol, MĂ©nĂ©trĂ©ol-sous-Sancerre, and BueÌ. François Crochet lives in BuĂ© and farms around eleven hectares, with vines predominantly around this home village (including around 3.5ha of Pinot Noir!). Some of these 30 parcels Crochet works are in several renowned single-vineyards in BueÌ, including lieux-dits Petit Chemarin, Grand Chemarin and Le CheÌne Marchand. These vineyards are limestone-based, rendering a distinctive mineral quality to Crochetâs wines that isnât always found in the more industrially-produced wines of the region. Of course, each parcellaire wine has its own personality, but the single-vineyard wines are aged on fine lees in large foudre for 18 months, adding openness and eleganceâa style long abandoned by most producers in the appellation. Crochetâs methods are gentle: fruit is hand-harvested and whole-cluster pressed, making for pure, delicate expressionâless ripeness and dullness, less of that âSancerre-yâ character of which one might complain, which has its origin in rough handling of fruit, poor farming, and over-cropped yields. Since 2019, only wild yeasts have been used in the winery, deepening the winesâ profiles; since 2017, the vineyards are worked both organically (certified) and biodynamically (practicing since 2018 and conversion completed in 2020).
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ABOUT THIS WINE
Certified organic. 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Sauvignon Blanc vines planted on the three types of soil of the Appellation, that is 80 % chalky soil â locally known as âcaillottesâ, 10% clay chalky soil and 10% flint. The vines are 25 years old on average. Hand-harvested. Pressed and fermented with natural yeast. Aged on its fine lees for 9 months in stainless steel.
ABOUT THIS PRODUCER
In Sancerre, three villages have come to be associated with wines of distinction: Chavignol, MĂ©nĂ©trĂ©ol-sous-Sancerre, and BueÌ. François Crochet lives in BuĂ© and farms around eleven hectares, with vines predominantly around this home village (including around 3.5ha of Pinot Noir!). Some of these 30 parcels Crochet works are in several renowned single-vineyards in BueÌ, including lieux-dits Petit Chemarin, Grand Chemarin and Le CheÌne Marchand. These vineyards are limestone-based, rendering a distinctive mineral quality to Crochetâs wines that isnât always found in the more industrially-produced wines of the region. Of course, each parcellaire wine has its own personality, but the single-vineyard wines are aged on fine lees in large foudre for 18 months, adding openness and eleganceâa style long abandoned by most producers in the appellation. Crochetâs methods are gentle: fruit is hand-harvested and whole-cluster pressed, making for pure, delicate expressionâless ripeness and dullness, less of that âSancerre-yâ character of which one might complain, which has its origin in rough handling of fruit, poor farming, and over-cropped yields. Since 2019, only wild yeasts have been used in the winery, deepening the winesâ profiles; since 2017, the vineyards are worked both organically (certified) and biodynamically (practicing since 2018 and conversion completed in 2020).
