![]() ![]() The volumes of wines available have tended to decrease in recent years. This is unfortunately accompanied by regular late spring frosts, while the buds of the next vintage have barely started to emerge and have already started their vegetative cycle. The last warmer vintages in Sancerre are undeniably the mark of global warming. Another reason to put and save a few bottles in your cellar today! For the same quality of wine, it would easily cost double in Burgundy. Well, another attraction of Sancerre reds, and not the least: the very wise quality/price ratios, unrivaled in Burgundy. Red Sancerre: an alternative to Burgundy wines? On the hilly slopes of certain terroirs, usually on a clay-limestone base, the grapes show an additional tannic structure, allowing them to improve for a few years in a good cellar.īeing personally a Burgundy red wines lover, I must admit that today, some Pinot Noirs tasted recently in Sancerre have nothing to be ashamed of alongside the beautiful village appellations of the famous Côte de Nuits vineyard! ![]() One can feel this when tasting the wines: a smooth texture offering an obvious and immediate seductive side. The pinot noir grapes harvested at maturity present additional body and richness, melt with the classic aromas of cherries and morello cherries. I’m thinking about the 2018 or 2019 recent years. ![]() In recent years, warmer vintages have added an extra dimension to the wines. The red wines are certainly less known there, but if you like wines made from the pinot noir grape, you absolutely must stop there for a moment. The vineyard of Sancerre extends over a landscape of gentle hills that I strongly recommend you to visit on sunny days, equipped with a corkscrew in your pocket and a few local goat cheese crottin de Chavignol in your basket! White wines produced only from the Sauvignon Blanc grape variety. Sancerre is surely the most famous vineyard in the Loire Valley: famous for its dry, round, fruity white wines, with a mineral and salivating saline texture. In recent years, I’ve been impressed by the quality of the red wine production of this appellation, where white wines dominate. Of the 2018, Antonio Galloni from Vinous writes: 'I was especially struck by the red Sancerre, maybe because I was not expecting them to be so flat-out delicious.Every year, usually in January, I’m driving to the Sancerre vineyards to taste the latest vintages offered by my favorite estates. It has the same finesse and effortlessness of their Sauvignons, with the added stony flintiness of their terroir. Made from Pinot Noir, the 2018 Vacheron Sancerre Rouge is a finely-knit red made by white wine specialists. Both the 2019 Les Romains (where everything started in 1968) and the 2019 Chambrates, from the limestone and red clay plateau, show another level of intensity, power and, of course, salinity and mineralité. Their single-vineyard wines are all fermented separately in large wooden foudres. ' Most producers can only dream of an 'entry-level' wine that's this good,' writes Vinous. Their straight 2020 Sancerre is the perfect introduction. The Wine Advocate continues, 'the cousins demonstrate that the Sancerreois is no less fascinating than the Côte d'Or.' Now run by cousins Jean-Dominique and Jean-Laurent Vacheron, they make benchmark Loire Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir from some of the best sites in the appellation – farmed biodynamically since 2005. ' surely one of the highlights in the Sancerrois,' says the Wine Advocate. ![]()
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