Domaine Vacheron - Sancerre Les Romains 2009

Guide des Vins Gault & Millau

About the estate:

"The estate produces about two-thirds white wine and one-third red wine from some 45 hectares, making it one of the region’s largest estates. The Vacheron quartet also offers high-quality wines made from Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir grapes grown using organic and biodynamic farming methods."

RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France

About the estate:

“The first Sancerre estate certified for biodynamic farming, since 2006. Jean-Dominique Vacheron, who focuses primarily on viticulture, works alongside his cousin Jean-Laurent, an oenologist who cut his teeth at leading Burgundy estates. While their red Sancerres often draw attention, the highly ripe whites are no longer to be overlooked. They are mineral in character, with a beautiful body in the powerful “Les Romains” cuvée, which comes from one of Sancerre’s finest and sunniest terroirs and is an expression of the flinty clay soils. Vinification takes place in wooden tanks, which softens the sometimes austere character that Sauvignon Blancs from flinty soils can exhibit. The extraction and aging of the reds give them, in their youth, a certain rigidity, somewhat in the spirit of the wines from Domaine Trapet in Burgundy. In any case, they need to be cellared for at least two to four years. The estate is closing in on its second star.”