Domaine Vacheron - Sancerre Les Romains 2009

Guide des Vins Gault & Millau

About the estate:

"The estate produces roughly two-thirds white wine and one-third red wine from its approximately 45 hectares, making it one of the region's leading 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 honed his craft at leading Burgundy estates. While their red Sancerres often attract attention, their highly mature whites are no less impressive. They reveal a mineral character, with beautiful structure in the powerful Les Romains cuvée, sourced from one of Sancerre’s finest and sunniest terroirs, an expression of flinty clay soils. Vinification takes place in wooden vats, which softens the tightness that Sauvignon Blancs on flinty soils can sometimes exhibit. The extraction and aging of the reds lead them, in their youth, to a certain rigidity, somewhat in the spirit of the wines from Domaine Trapet in Burgundy. In any case, they should be cellared for at least two to four years. The estate is approaching its second star.”