{"title":"Domaine du Nozay","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Wicked Stepmother” — “La Marâtre” — is an unconventional name for a Sancerre. But that’s what Domaine du Nozay calls the plot right above their cellar, so that’s what they call the wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo, Nozay isn’t your average Sancerre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd that’s a good thing. As Gibb notes, in Sancerre “conventional” is pretty much a pejorative. But in a region dominated by large production, innocuous-at-best wines that trade on the all-powerful Sancerre name, Nozay lets their freak flag fly. They could bottle easy-to-make, generic-tasting Sancerre and sell it all easily, of course. But instead they agonize over every detail while they make their wines of terroir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNozay, like any producer this focused on terroir, is fanatical about their farming (organic and biodynamic) and hands off in the winery (they ferment with native yeasts and without additives). They even experiment with terracotta vessels to try to find the best way to let the wines evolve fully into themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sf.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/domaine-du-nozay.oembed","provider":"Flatiron SF","version":"1.0","type":"link"}