2023 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Belle Dame Rouge, Loire, France David Moreau 60 cm of clay limestone

60 cm of clay limestone topsoil with traces of chalk and layers of tuffe below

Dark-fruited but with tons of energy and lift

The fruit is grown and hand harvested from the No Clos Radio Vineyard in Tualatin Hills sub-AVA of the Willamette Valley

Making of: the grapes are hand-harvested

Making of: Once gently pressed

2023 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Belle Dame Rouge, Loire, France David Moreau 60 cm of clay limestoneMost people, when tasting the Belle Dame, a cuve of 50 year old vines of Pinot Noir grown on pure flint soils, compare it to Burgundy. It understandable and unfortunate at the same time as this is a terror quite distinct from anything in Burgundy further north and on hard flinty soils. Before phylloxera, Sancerre was renown as Pinot Noir country, and justly so. Sadly, there are few producers, like Vacheron, who care enough to prove just how amazing