2023 Domaine Gueneau Sancerre Rouge "Terres de Fossiles", Loire Valley, FranceABOUT THIS WINE 100% Pinot Noir from Sancerre! This wine ages for 10 months (50% stainless and 50% French oak barrels) Elisa Gueneau makes this minuscule production wine from 25 year old vines growing on thick limestone soils. The ruby color with garnet red highlights immediately conveys the unusual seriousness of this Sancerre rouge. ABOUT THIS PRODUCER Elisas family has been in Sancerre since before they kept records a long time. The family has been

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The grapes are hand sorted at the winery

” She works with techniques that nurture life in the soils that have been decimated by years of industrial agriculture

and Moulin-à-Vent

and none of our wines should be interchangeable

In recent years David has adapted his work in both the vineyards and cellars and in the last few years is producing wines with not only remarkable finesse and detail but also exhilarating intensity and freshness

our Chardonnays have a distinct signature that can best be described as a combination of chalky

all of which are vinified separately

an unlikely trait in a man of such accomplishment

The fruit of this vineyard goes into their Malbec bottling

He furthered his studies by working weekends at Ridge vineyards