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Vincent Pinard Sancerre Chene Marchand 2022

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Buรฉ is one of Sancerreโ€™s quality hot-spots. Like Chavignol or Mรฉnรฉtrรฉol, it is home to many venerated vineyards and quite a few exceptional producers. In this newsletter we have two: Lucien Crochet (whose rosรฉ is a few stories down) and Vincent Pinard, arguably Buรฉโ€™s best winemakers.

Buรฉ is known for its gentle hills of oxfordian limestone, aka โ€˜caillotesโ€™, and its elegant, perfumed wines, which are both sophisticated and approachable. Pinard veers from the script slightly, though, aiming for brisker, sharpened expressions of the regionโ€™s terroir. His racy, crystalline whites seem impervious to Europe's ever-warming vintages.

Preserving the zip that We've come to expect from Sancerre is something we really appreciate, though it must be a challenge. Pinard however, has the chops and resumรฉ, coming from generations of Sancerrois winemakers dating back to the 1600s.

Heโ€™s also somewhat of a fanatic, well-known for being meticulous in the vineyard and cellar. He farms organically and harvests by hand, selecting the best fruit. Yields are low for the region.

While Pinard does produce a few single-vineyard wines, he also makes some remarkably good โ€˜blends.โ€™ They are far from generic, and qualify as some of the best in the entire Sancerre region.

Professional Reviews

Antonio Galloni

AG 93
"The 2022 Chรชne Marchand is a richly fruited wine offering creamy notes and ripe peach fruit. While it's an opulent style for a Sancerre, it never becomes heavy, plus it has an almost tannic edge, providing a frame and reassuring structure that grips the palate, suggesting that this has longevity. There's a fine, briny character throughout. Having tasted the killer 1996 vintage a few minutes afterward, you can be sure this wine has a long life ahead." -Rebecca Gibb

Details

  • Grape Variety

    Sauvignon Blanc

  • Vintage

    2022

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Style

    Earthy , Elegant , Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied

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