2024 Loire Valley Wine

Lower ABV Fun, delicious, highly drinkable, Sauvignon Blanc with just a bit more going on than the modest price would suggest. You’ll find a big burst of green melon, ripe peach and grapefruit zest aromas and flavors with... Read More

Organic/Bio Just a short distance from Sancerre, Pouilly Fume showcases the smokier, gunflint, side of Sauvignon Blanc. Especially at this outstanding estate run by 8th generation winegrower Katia Mauroy-Gauliez working with some... Read More

It’s kind of exciting to taste a Sancerre that tastes just like “Sancerre” – one that isn’t showing the sometimes over-the-top ripeness of recent vintages or the musty dilution of the wet and moldy... Read More

Lower ABV In the western Loire, Sauvignon sometimes struggles to ripen past its herbal, even bell-peppery, youth. In Cheverny, growers get their Sauvignon ripe AND get to add Chardonnay (15% here) for even more freshness and texture.... Read More

This small (20 acre) family-owned estate makes delicious wines that studies the interaction of Sauvignon Blanc and Sancerre's diverse soils. Here you’ll taste the impact of Sancerre’s famed “terres blanches,”... Read More

Lower ABV A terrific 2024 Sancerre - something we don't often say - in a steely, flinty, style we don't find as often as we'd like. Very firm in texture and with real grip to the white and yellow citrus fruit. Finishes... Read More

Lower ABV Basically a “baby Sancerre”, this exciting young Sauvignon Blanc is grown on the same chalky slate soils you’ll find across Sancerre from 10-40 year-old vines, fermented in stainless steel and allowed... Read More

Lower ABV While the label here features a bowler hat (in French, “Chapeau Melon”), what you’re more likely to be wearing after you try a sip of this is a big ole smile. An almost Gascogne-style white blending... Read More