Vincent Gaudry: Tasting & Drinking
The joys of Sancerre seemingly know no bounds. This is arguably the most popular and most successful appellation in the Loire Valley, so you might imagine every domaine of interest has long been uncovered, rather as one imagines every cellar in Vosne-Romanée or Gevrey-Chambertin has been visited not once, but dozens of times, by merchants eager to find a new, young, good-value grower for their list. And yet it does not seem to be so; there are still little-known domaines, not undiscovered perhaps but certainly well hidden in the shadows cast by the region’s big names, that make wines worthy of our attention. Wines that communicate what Sancerre can be; not weedy, acid-driven, high-cropped wines, but wines of texture and substance, wines of complexity and interest.
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