2023 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Belle Dame Rouge, Loire, France David Moreau Les Montes de Bruyeres and

Les Montes de Bruyeres and La Porte des Grand Champs

Classification: Sparkling pet nat rosé wine

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

Dark-fruited but with tons of energy and lift

My early wine education and apprenticeship had a heavy focus on Chard and Pinot

2023 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Belle Dame Rouge, Loire, France David Moreau Les Montes de Bruyeres andMost 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