SANCERRE
2017 Chavignol Domaine Vincent Delaporte
Grapes | Sauv Blanc |
Colour | White |
Origin | France, Loire |
Other | Vegetarian |
Sub-district | Sancerre |
Village | Chavignol |
ABV | 13.5% |
This is serious Sancerre, crisp and fresh with an intense, long flavour — a perfect match for goat’s cheese. Will Lyons, The Sunday Times (Apr 2019)
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Light and tight and fresh. Long and really builds towards the end. Drinking range: 2018 - 2020 Rating: 16.5 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Oct 2018)
Cool and youthful on the nose but fantastic depth on the palate, delivering a wad of tightly packed, restrained but ripe fruit with a long mineral spine. Crisp green apples and spicy pears and quince. Long, persistent, mouth-filling and hugely confident, going into a finish framed in stone. Bravo! Drinking range: 2018 - 2021 Rating: 17 Tamlyn Currin - www.JancisRobinson.com (May 2018)
Domaine Vincent Delaporte
Patrick and I first visited Vincent Delaporte in 1986, a memorable end to a long day, we finished by tasting older and older red and white Sancerres. His wines were in Steven Spurrier's selection for the Caves de la Madeleine, where I had worked several years earlier, and the London end of which Patrick was running at the time. They have featured in the Lea & Sandeman selection since our very first list. The domaine passed to Vincent's son Jean-Yves and his wife Nathalie, and now their son Matthieu is in charge, after a 'stage' at L&S in the summer of 2012, and taken over the winemaking role. They have recently incorporated the vines of Matthieu's uncle, giving them two new jewels in the crown, decent holdings in the Monts Damnés (white) and Cul de Beaujeu (red).
Matthieu has taken the domaine in the direction of organic farming, although he still hesitates over going for certification. He has stopped buying new barrels, and stopped using cultured yeasts, sometimes allowing malolactic fermentation to occur. Levels of sulphur are kept to the barest minimum.
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