Country: France Region: Loire Valley
Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc Vintage: 2022
Colour: White Style: Dry
Producer: Domaine de Sancerre
Description:Chateau de Sancerre is a a rarity in French wine, the 10th Century Castle also bears the name of the wine appellation. The 55 Hectare site has four specific vineyard sites, each of which, due to their soil composition, contribute different terroir driven aspects to the wine. The rolling hills and continental climate produce ideal growing conditions for Sauvignon Blanc. The champion white variety of this famed region.
Tasting Note:A delightful pale golden hue with highlights of silver, intense aromas of boxwood and grapefruit are carried through to flavours enhanced by the addition of white floral notes.
Country: France Region: Burgundy
Varietal: Pinot Noir Vintage: 2023
Category: Red Wine Style: Dry
Producer: Roisin Curley
This is a very special wine from a very special person. We've know Róisín for many years and have been wowed by her focus and vision in running this amazing project, and the quality of her wines.
We are very lucky and feel greatly privileged to be able to sell some of her wines.
The villages of the Cotes des Nuits read like a Michelin-starred wine list, and what's most incredible is that they appear, one after the other, as you drive from north to south.
This wine is taken from one of the most northerly villages in the Cote d'Or, Fixin, just south of Marsannay and Couchey and the next village to the north of Gevrey Chambertin.
Two categories of wine are made here, Village-level and 1er Cru. The site that Róisín uses for this is nestled amongst the 1er Cru vineyards and is also the largest single site in the village.
The wine is gorgeous.
With a brooding and almost covered and reticent opening, there are smokey, flinty flavours that linger like a Burgundian morning mist; but after a short decant, this yields to a sweet berry palate with ample body, crunchy freshness and perfect balance. The fruit character opens and the clouds part, so to speak. Delicately and exquisitely made.
From a very warm vintage the grapes from this vintage were ripening earlier than normal, because of the early heat. However, as the heat cam before the sunshine hours that normally accompany it, there was a slight shift in the required light to ripen the skin colour of the Pinot Noir grapes.
This meant that Róisín worked harder in the vineyard to ensure that all the sunshine that was available was being used, but also that the grapes didn't over-ripen on account of the extra heat. It's one of the factors of changing climate that can be directly measured, but that is not overtly bad: just different. The other challenge is water - though there was plenty of rainfall in