Sancerre Blanc « Cuvée Prestige Les Bénédictins »
Variety: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Ageing potential: 8 to 12 years
Serving temperature: Serve fresh at 10 to 12 °C
Tasting notes: A brilliant clear yellow, with green highlights. A racy nose, ripe citrus, gunflint, a touch of patisserie. In the mouth there is an exotic dimension, a svelte wine, but also showing opulence, a superb exuberance – fine and precise – a real top-of-the-range Sancerre.
Pairing: Perfect with scallops, and filleted fish in cream.
Sancerre Blanc ‘Cuvee Prestige les Bénédictins’ 2012 from Domaine Patrice Moreaux is a parcellar selection from a very sought after slope – the ‘Monts Damnés’. Only a dozen vinegrowers out of the 400 in the AOC have the privilege of owning a small piece. Unique thanks to its composition of a soil very high in limestone, with clay and shells mixed, this parcel gives us golden-coloured Sancerre.
Comes from the terroirs of Chavignol and Crézancy. The blend of these two terroirs composed of limestone and clay help to give this Sancerre its marvellous balance.
Variety: 100 % Sauvignon Blanc
Localisation: Chavignol
Production: 4 000 bottles
Viticultural practices: limited intervention. The earth is ploughed, no chemical removal of grass, the only fertilizer used is organic and only when necessary. Manual harvesting.
Vinification: Pneumatic pressing. Spontaneous fermentation with natural yeasts from the grapes. Aged in INOX tanks with temperature control, on a fine layer of lees. The lunar cycle guides the vinification process.
Continental climate: cold in the winter, hot and dry from the Spring to Summer.
Terroir: limestone
Vine age: 20 years
Plantation density: 6500 vines per HA.
Millésime 2012
Wine Spectator : 90/100
Wine Enthusiast : 90/100
Gilbert & Gaillard : 92/100
