2019 Sancerre La Demoiselle Blanc
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The 2019 La Demoiselle is an elegant yet ripe Pinot Noir that draws you in with its savory, spiced fruit and smoky bacon-like personality. Succulent yet long with delightful acidity, this is a rare Pinot planted on flint, the terroir's natural propensity to pull you along like a parent pulling the string on a toboggan. The finish is long, effortless and fragrant with tea leaf joining the array of aromas. Attractive now but it is still a pup and would be delightful in a few years when its savory development progresses.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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Cultivated on deep, flinty clay formations, the 2019 Sancerre La Demoiselle opens with a deep, concentrated and remarkably flinty bouquet reminiscent of gunpowder but also yeasty and oaky nuances. Severe and dense but also enormously tensioned on the palate, this is a serious, sustainable, very elegant, refined and expressive Sancerre with crystal-clear fruit on the knife's edge but also texture and fine tannins. A beautiful wine to have with food, even meat. I love this one because it is tight and tensioned, always salty and grippy and, last but not least, so very well balanced. 13.5% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted in January 2022.
Same heavy bottle as La Moussière bottlings. Certified organic. Grown on deep flint (silex). So much more drive and refreshment than La Moussière. A rewarding, complex wine that is providing great drinking now. Nicely splits the difference between the new, very ripe style and the more classic, minerally one. Agreeable chalky texture on the (very sligthtly sweet) finish. You could drink this with or without food. (JR)
The 2019 Sancerre La Demoiselle Rouge opens deep, fresh, pure and intense on the spicy nose that reveals ripe, dark fruit aromas intermixed with iodine notes. Silky, fresh and elegant on the palate, this is a full-bodied, fleshy and persistently vivacious red Sancerre with a lot of power, intensity and tannins. Still young but also quite oxidative. 13% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted in December 2021.
About the producer
Now in the hands of the 19th generation, the Mellot family has been winegrowing in Sancerre for over 500 years. Organic and biodynamic, the estate is a leading name in the region, renowned for their intense, precise expressions of Sauvignon Blanc – some of the best in the appellation.