2023 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Belle Dame Rouge, Loire, France Mac Forbes An electric energy and all

An electric energy and all the mouth-watering juiciness Gamay does best

the soil characteristics here are quite similar to the the base of the Eisenberg hill

In 2010 the domaine expanded and added a new underground cellar fashioned from natural materials where the white wines are now stored in old oak tuns and the red wines in barrels

fermented with indigenous yeasts

Classic vertical press

2023 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Belle Dame Rouge, Loire, France Mac Forbes An electric energy and allMost people, when tasting the Belle Dame, a cuve of 50 year old vines of Pinot Noir grown on pure flint soils, compare it to Burgundy. It understandable and unfortunate at the same time as this is a terror quite distinct from anything in Burgundy further north and on hard flinty soils. Before phylloxera, Sancerre was renown as Pinot Noir country, and justly so. Sadly, there are few producers, like Vacheron, who care enough to prove just how amazing