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Domaine Olivier Foucher Sancerre Blanc — Loire Valley 2024

Domaine Olivier Foucher's Sancerre Blanc is a textbook expression of what the Loire Valley does best — and the 2024 vintage delivers with exceptional clarity and energy. Sourced from the storied hillside vineyards of Sancerre, the wine is crafted from 100% Sauvignon Blanc grown on the region's signature limestone and flint soils, producing a wine of impeccable balance, structural tension, and mineral precision. Wave after wave of mouth-puckering acidity and a mineral-packed finish make this one of the most exciting values in the appellation.

The nose is bright and inviting: freshly squeezed lime, lemon zest, gooseberry, peach blossom, and a pleasant grassy note. On the palate, it is crisp and lively with excellent precision and energetic focus — everything is where it should be, making this Sauvignon Blanc almost too easy to drink. The finish is long, clean, and refreshingly mineral.

Bart Hopkins, 67 Wine Senior Wine Writer — "A classic mineral-driven Sancerre with a lovely bouquet and deliciously refreshing palate. Excellent precision and energetic focus on the finish."

• Producer: Domaine Olivier Foucher, Sancerre, Loire Valley, France
• Vintage: 2024
• Appellation: Sancerre AOC
• Varietal: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
• Soils: Limestone and flint (silex)
• Size: 750ml
• Tasting Notes: Lime, lemon zest, gooseberry, peach blossom, grassy notes, mineral finish
• Best Paired With: Oysters, scallops, smoked trout, shellfish, goat cheese salad with apples and walnuts

Crisp, focused, and unmistakably Sancerre — Domaine Olivier Foucher's Blanc is the benchmark for Loire Sauvignon Blanc at an honest price.

Mary Taylor Anjou Blanc — Pascal Biotteau, Loire Valley 2024

If no wine region on earth can rival the stylistic diversity of France's Loire Valley, the appellation of Anjou offers the perfect microcosm of the region as a whole. This gorgeously subtle Chenin Blanc comes from fourth-generation winemaker Pascal Biotteau in the village of Saint-Jean-de-Mauvrets — situated on the old Roman road from Angers to Poitiers, along the border of Anjou's two sub-regions. Imported by Mary Taylor, whose mission is to bring honest, terroir-driven wines from small European producers to American tables at fair prices, this is Loire Chenin Blanc at its most pure and unpretentious.

The nose is bright and inviting: crisp green apple, ripe pear, white peach, and delicate floral notes with hints of honey and citrus zest. On the palate, it is vibrant and well-balanced with refreshing acidity, a clean mineral-driven finish, and the quiet confidence that only old-vine Chenin Blanc from Anjou can deliver. Drink now through 2027.

"The perfect microcosm of the Loire — fresh, mineral, and utterly honest." — Mary Taylor Wines

• Producer: Pascal Biotteau, Saint-Jean-de-Mauvrets, Anjou, Loire Valley, France
• Importer: Mary Taylor Wines
• Vintage: 2024
• Appellation: Anjou Blanc AOC
• Varietal: 100% Chenin Blanc
• Size: 750ml
• Tasting Notes: Green apple, pear, white peach, honey, citrus zest, mineral finish
• Drink: Now through 2027
• Best Paired With: Grilled white fish, oysters, lobster bisque, soft cheeses, fresh goat cheese, light poultry, spring vegetable risotto

A textbook Anjou Blanc at a price that makes it an everyday essential — this Chenin Blanc is the Loire in a glass.

Winemaker Description

Gérard Boulay's "terre blanche" vineyards in Chavignol produce some of the most distinctive and soil-inflected Sauvignon Blancs in the Loire Valley — wines with a delineation and minerality. Boulay stands among the appellation's finest producers, alongside neighbors Cotat and Vatan.

Tasting Notes

Precise and mineral-driven, with the hallmark flinty character of Chavignol's limestone soils. Expect citrus, white stone fruit, and a long, saline finish with exceptional tension and length.

Food Pairings

The classic match is Crottin de Chavignol goat cheese — a pairing rooted in the same village. Also excellent with fresh oysters, grilled seafood, arugula salad, roasted peppers, and lemon chicken.

Product Details

Bottle Size: 750ml
Vintage: 2024
Region: Sancerre, Loire Valley, France
Village: Chavignol
Appellation: Sancerre AOC
Grape Variety: Sauvignon Blanc
Style: White Wine

Concours Général Agricole Paris — Silver Medal

Our Professional Review

Bart Hopkins, 67 Wine Buyer, writes: A lovely alternative to Sancerre, hands down delicious with refreshing purity and harmonious balance. The aroma is enticingly perfumed with scents of white peach, honeydew melon and lemon verbena. Lively and energetic in the mouth, with freshness and purity in every sip. Nice mineral finish. Perfect with salads, light poultry and grilled fish.

About the Domaine

Located in Pouilly-sur-Loire in the heart of the Loire Valley, Domaine Gilles Chollet farms 30 acres of clay-limestone and sandy soils with southwestern exposure. Vines are cultivated using sustainable "Lutte Raisonnée" methods. Gilles worked the vineyards for over a decade before taking over from his father, investing in high-performance fermentation equipment to maximize aromatic expression.

• Grape: Sauvignon Blanc
• Appellation: Pouilly Fumé AOC, Loire Valley, France
• Vintage: 2021
• Format: 750ml
• Farming: Lutte Raisonnée (sustainable)

Critical Acclaim - Vintage 2024

• View from the Cellar – John Gilman 92 Points | “Deep and complex bouquet of gooseberry, lime, a beautiful base of chalky minerality, newly-cut grass, just a whisper of anise and a topnote of citrus blossoms. On the palate the wine is crisp, full-bodied, focused and nicely soil-driven in personality, with a fine core of fruit, a lovely spine of acidity, excellent balance and a long, complex and nicely grassy finish.” Drink 2025–2035.

Tasting Notes

Floral and fruity with notes of citrus, gooseberry, and stones, underpinned by a beautiful chalky minerality from the caillottes soils. Precise and balanced with great acidity, this is a harmonious, “gourmet” Sancerre of real elegance and length.

About the Wine

A joint venture between the Frères Fleuriet and Stéphane Marchand, Renaissance is one of Sancerre’s most exciting organic and biodynamic producers. The name “Magie des Caillottes” refers to the shallow, stony limestone (caillottes) soils of Sancerre — a terroir that produces wines of exceptional aromatic elegance, ready to drink earlier than those from heavier clay or flint soils. No synthetic chemicals, no shortcuts — just the pure expression of one of the Loire Valley’s greatest appellations.

Food Pairing

A natural match for oysters, grilled fish, shellfish, goat cheese, and light salads. Equally stunning on its own as an aperitif.

Product Details

• Appellation: Sancerre, Loire Valley, France
• Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc
• Vintage: 2024
• Format: 750ml
• Farming: Organic & Biodynamic
• Drinking Window: 2025–2035
• Producer: Renaissance (Frères Fleuriet & Stéphane Marchand)

Jean-Marc et Romain Pastou — Sancerre Vieilles Vignes 2025

Domaine Pastou is a family estate rooted in Sury-en-Vaux, a quiet village nestled in the rolling hills of the northern Sancerre appellation. Jean-Marc Pastou began making wine under his own name in the early 1980s, planting his first vines — now the oldest on the estate — in that same year. Today his son Romain carries the torch, farming 12 hectares of Sauvignon Blanc across some of Sancerre’s finest sites, including multiple parcels in the prized lieu dit of Les Boucaults.

The Vieilles Vignes cuvée draws on the estate’s oldest vines, delivering the deeper concentration, mineral complexity, and textural richness that only age can bring. This is mineral-driven Sancerre at its most authentic — precise, elegant, and a perennial favorite for the value it delivers at its price point.

• Producer: Domaine Jean-Marc et Romain Pastou, Sury-en-Vaux, Sancerre, Loire Valley, France
• Vintage: 2025
• Appellation: Sancerre AOC
• Varietal: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
• Vineyard: 12 hectares including Les Boucaults lieu dit
• Size: 750ml
• Tasting Notes: Mineral, citrus, white fruit, crisp acidity, elegant finish
• Best Paired With: Oysters, grilled fish, goat cheese, asparagus, light seafood pasta

Old vines, great terroir, outstanding value — Pastou Sancerre is the kind of discovery that keeps customers coming back.

Producer Description 

Purchased by the Comte Lafond, an ancestor of the current owner, Baron Patrick de Ladoucette, Château du Nozet and its surrounding vineyards have a reputation for producing the finest Pouilly-Fumé.

The delicate and complex olfactory expression opens on aromas which remind of white flower, exotic fruits. There is a very beautiful complexity for a vintage where the end-of-season’s sun brought a lot to the aromas. Excellent complexity that translates into great and elegant richness. Nice attack, straight and bright, it takes place with elegance on fruity notes associated with a dense structure and a beautiful acidity which brings a great length in the end of the mouth. There are aromas of exotic fruits (litchi, mango).

Expert Review - Vintage 2023

The Wine Spectator by Kristen Bieler writes 89 Points | Apple, pear and citrus cream are backed by a laser beam of acidity and crushed flint. Warm hay and heather notes add dimension, while the finish is crackling and linear. Drink now through 2026. 2,500 cases imported.

Memo Notes Summary 

De Ladoucette is unique in that it utilizes no oak in its vinification, aging the wine on its fine lees in glass-tiled tanks. This process maximizes the fresh, terroir-driven characteristics of the Sauvignon Blanc grape.

Color: Pale golden-green, bright and limpid.

The nose is delicate yet complex, exhibiting a beautiful array of white flowers (lilac, white blossoms), citrus fruits (grapefruit, lemon peel), and exotic fruit (lychee, mango). The quintessential flinty/mineral aroma, known as fumé (smoke), is usually present, especially as the wine opens.

The classic, mineral-driven profile of Pouilly-Fumé makes it one of the most versatile white wines for dining:

• Seafood: A perfect match for all shellfish, including oysters, scallops, and shrimp, as well as grilled white fish (sea bass, turbot).

  Cheese: The traditional pairing is goat cheese, especially Crottin de Chavignol or fresh Chèvre. Its acidity cuts through the cheese's creaminess beautifully.

  
  

  Poultry & Other: Light white meats, salads, and vegetable dishes like asparagus risotto or chicken with a cream/lemon sauce.

Domaine Olivier Foucher | Sancerre AOC, Loire Valley, France | 2024

Olivier Foucher took over his family's 10.5-hectare estate in 2011 after studies in viticulture and oenology and years working alongside his parents. Le Chant du Silex — "The Song of the Flint" — takes its name from the estate's prized silex (flinty) soils, which impart a signature smoky, gunflint minerality and exceptional aging potential. The focus here is precision and tension: energetic, bright, and impeccably balanced rather than tropical or overworked.

Silver Medal, 2025 Concours Mondial du Sauvignon. Praised by 67 Wine's Bart Hopkins as "a classic mineral-driven Sancerre with excellent precision."

Grape: Sauvignon Blanc
Soils: Silex (flint)
Drink: Now–2030

Tasting Notes

• Delicate floral, lime zest, and tangerine on the nose
• White peach, pear, grapefruit, and subtle exotic fruit on the palate
• Full, mouth-puckering acidity | Smoky gunflint minerality | Long, precise finish

Pairings: Oysters, goat cheese, grilled fish, sushi, light poultry

Alphonse Mellot La Moussière Sancerre  — Loire Valley 2025

Alphonse Mellot is one of Sancerre’s most storied and celebrated estates — and the only domaine in the entire Sancerrois to hold the prestigious hors concours (beyond competition) distinction. La Moussière is the estate’s flagship cuvée: a 100% Sauvignon Blanc sourced from the La Moussière vineyard at the very heart of the Sancerre appellation, farmed biodynamically since 1999 and hand-harvested in its entirety. Aged for 8 months on the lees in a combination of wood, concrete, and stainless steel vessels, the wine develops remarkable texture and complexity while allowing the pure fruit to shine through with no evidence of oak flavor. The 2023 vintage earned 90 points from Vinous — and the 2025 continues that legacy.

The color is a resplendent golden robe with glints of green. The nose is floral and fruity: white flowers, citrus, and the characteristic mineral tension of great Sancerre. On the palate, it is rounded and airy — finely textured with curved edges from lees aging, with pure lemon, nettle, and fresh pineapple characters singing through a clean, mineral-driven finish of real precision and length. Fish tartare, smoked salmon, or a girolle mushroom omelette are the classic pairings.

Vinous 90 (Prior 2023 vintage) — “A rounded, airy wine with pure, clear fruit. Finely textured with curved edges. The pure fruit shines through with no evidence of oak flavor, allowing the pretty lemon, nettle and fresh pineapple characters to sing.”

• Producer: Alphonse Mellot, Sancerre, Loire Valley, France
• Distinction: Only hors concours estate in the Sancerrois
• Vintage: 2025
• Appellation: Sancerre AOC
• Varietal: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
• Farming: Biodynamic since 1999, hand-harvested
• Aging: 8 months on lees, wood / concrete / stainless steel
• Size: 750ml
• Tasting Notes: White flowers, citrus, lemon, nettle, fresh pineapple, mineral precision, clean finish
• Best Paired With: Fish tartare, smoked salmon, girolle mushroom omelette, oysters, goat cheese

Alphonse Mellot’s La Moussière is the Sancerre that defines the appellation.

Winemaker Description 

While not untrue, calling Cheverny a value alternative to Sancerre would completely overlook the virtues unique to this appellation. It is a much zippier expression of Sauvignon Blanc compared to its famous neighbor, more citrusy than grassy. When Kermit introduced this wine in July 1993, he said, “Salvard makes the most drinkable, quaffable Sauvignon Blanc I have ever tasted.”

Thierry and Emmanuel Delaille of Domaine du Salvard specialize in crisp, mouthwatering Sauvignon Blanc, but for this cuvée, they add a splash of Chardonnay, which brings complexity, flesh, and notes of Meyer lemon and orchard fruit. The base of Sauvignon Blanc, meanwhile, provides freshness and liveliness as well as its characteristic flavors of passion fruit and lime zest. The two grape varieties combine for outstanding versatility, such that this bottle will serve you well alongside all kinds of seasonal spring fare.
—Tom Wolf

Domaine Delobel Touraine Sauvignon Blanc “Angle Droit” — Loire Valley 2024

Domaine Delobel is one of the Loire Valley’s most exciting organic estates, founded in 2013 by Benjamin Delobel in Ouchamps, on the celebrated Oisly vineyard. Working with 10 hectares of certified-organic Sauvignon Blanc — planted from mass selections to preserve old-vine complexity — Benjamin crafts wines that are, as the name “Angle Droit” (Right Angle) suggests, straight, pure, and technically precise. For fans of Sauvignon Blanc who find New Zealand styles too loud and Sancerre too expensive, this wine hits the perfect middle ground. Manual harvests at dawn, slow pneumatic pressing, stainless steel fermentation, and aging on lees deliver a wine of exceptional freshness and mineral clarity.

The nose is lively and inviting: dried hay, field grass, sliced green apple, and crabapple aromas converge in a satisfying, savory frame. On the palate, the wine washes across wet river stone with tart acidity accented by white blossom — mineral-driven, focused, and refreshingly precise. The finish is clean and lingering.

Wine Enthusiast 90 — Reggie Solomon: “This lively wine refreshes the senses. The mineral-driven palate washes across wet river stone with tart acidity accented by white blossom.”

• Producer: Domaine Delobel, Ouchamps, Touraine, Loire Valley, France
• Vintage: 2024
• Appellation: Touraine AOC
• Varietal: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
• Farming: Certified Organic since 2013
• Vinification: Manual harvest, pneumatic press, stainless steel, aged on lees
• Size: 750ml
• Tasting Notes: Dried hay, green apple, crabapple, white blossom, wet river stone, mineral finish
• Best Paired With: Goat cheese (Selles-sur-Cher, Crottin de Chavignol), oysters, fish ceviche, grilled sea bass, fresh asparagus

Pure, precise, and organically farmed — Domaine Delobel’s “Angle Droit” is the benchmark for honest, terroir-driven Touraine Sauvignon Blanc.

Expert Review - Vintage 2023 

Vinous 93 Points | The 2023 Vouvray Sec Le Haut-Lieu is a pure, refined, seamless style with pear, pineapple and nectarine flavors. It boasts excellent clarity and refinement, with lovely freshness hailing from calibrated acidity that bursts through this blossoming wine. Considering this was only bottled three weeks before tasting, I’m very encouraged by the results.

Wine Spectator 92 Points | Fresh-crushed apple, quince and spice notes have an earthy dimension, with hints of roasted agave and wet soil. There's beautiful range and just enough plumpness to make this generous, yet it's held in check by a chalky mineral element and very fine tannins. Toasted almond and salted butter notes move in, with lime-edged acidity cleaning up the finish. Refined and complex. Drink now through 2037.

Winemaker Description 

The original Huët vineyard is nearly 9 hA. It has the richest soils of the domaine’s three crus - a deep limestone-clay - and the wines are generally the estate’s most approachable. In some vintages, small quantities from nearby estate parcels may be added to Le Haut-Lieu. Winemaker Description.

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Complices de Loire La Grande Parcelle Chenin Blanc from Montlouis-sur-Loire, France. This is an elegant white wine made from the Chenin Blanc grape, typical of this Loire region. This wine offers a wonderful balance between freshness and complexity, with aromas of citrus fruits, peach and white flowers, as well as a mineral undertone that reflects the calcareous soils.

The wine has a lively acidity and a soft, refined structure, which provides a refreshing and well-balanced taste. It is an ideal accompaniment to fish dishes, shellfish or goat cheese. La Grande Parcelle is a beautiful representation of the terroir of Montlouis-sur-Loire, with a subtle but present depth.

Winemaker Description 

The Pascal Cotat Sancerre Les Monts Damnés 2022 is a distinguished Sauvignon Blanc from the renowned Chavignol region in the Loire Valley, France. Cultivated on the steep, chalky slopes of the Monts Damnés vineyard—known as “the damned mountains” due to their challenging terrain—this wine embodies both elegance and power.

The 2022 vintage offers a complex bouquet of citrus peel, green apple, and white flowers, interwoven with a pronounced chalky minerality. On the palate, it delivers flavors of morello cherries, cracked black pepper, and juicy red plums, balanced by refreshing acidity and a medium-bodied structure. The wine's profile is marked by its freshness and approachability, making it suitable for various occasions.

Ideal pairings include shellfish, grilled fish, and creamy goat cheeses, making it a delightful choice for refined dining experiences.

This exceptional wine is a testament to Pascal Cotat's commitment to producing some of the most singular and age-worthy Sauvignon Blancs in the world.

Aromas of melons, fresh herbs, white flowers; a delicate note of sea salt. Creamy yet light on the tongue; poached white fruits, lime zest, grapefruit. Very long.

Producer Description 

Refreshing persistence, resinous herbal notes on the nose and lovely fresh pear fruit, lime zest, grapefruit pith, and pineapple on the palate. 

The grapes for this basic cuvée of Sancerre are sourced from the vineyards in Bué, Vinon and Crézancy. After harvest, fermentation is done in stainless steel cuves at temperatures between 14 and 18 degrees Celsius. 

As with all the whites at the domaine, this wine sits in contact with the fine lies for a considerable period of time with the racking being done late in the spring following harvest. The first bottling occurs no earlier than July and frequently does not occur until September of the year following harvest.

Expert Review - Vintage 2023 

Vinous 95 Points | The 2023 Vouvray Sec Le Mont is precise, upright and flinty. It's less immediately charming than the styles we've seen in recent warmer vintages, but it was only tasted three weeks after bottling—this is one to revisit. There's just the right amount of juicy, peachy flesh within this light-bodied yet concentrated wine. It has the potential to charm but does so without showing off. Flinty and tightly sewn together, it has curves in the right places, but you're just going to have to wait for it to take shape.

Winemaker Description 

Le Mont wines are often the estate's most reticent, but develop the strongest perfume with age. Mineral-driven with a crystalline purity, this is the precision we've come to rely on with Le Mont.

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The wine is dry, round and supple, with a beautiful refreshing acidity. It gives off notes of ripe fruits, peaches and pink grapefruit… On the palate, it gives immediate pleasure and has lovely weight.
 

Producer Description 

A nectar from one end of the tasting to the other! An intensely golden adornment, a nose of perfectly over-ripe Chenin, underlined by great elegance, a note of almond cream, quince, very ripe peach skin.

The palate is very straight, freshness, tension and sweetness so well integrated, a finish of candy sugar crystals but also the fine bitterness of the schists, it is a very beautiful vintage, a wine built to last and already so pleasant to taste now. It is the cuvée representative of the estate's terroir, i.e. almost five vines.

Winemaker Description 

The delicate and complex olfactory expression opens on aromas which remind of white flower, exotic fruits. There is a very beautiful complexity for a vintage where the end-of-season’s sun brought a lot to the aromas. Excellent complexity that translates into great and elegant richness. Nice attack, straight and bright, it takes place with elegance on fruity notes associated with a dense structure and a beautiful acidity which brings a great length in the end of the mouth. There are aromas of exotic fruits (litchi, mango).

Purchased by the Comte Lafond, an ancestor of the current owner, Baron Patrick de Ladoucette, Château du Nozet and its surrounding vineyards have a reputation for producing the finest Pouilly-Fumé. The vineyards are in Pouilly-Fumé Contrôlée, which includes Pouilly-sur-Loire, Saint-Andelain and Tracy-sur-Loire at the eastern end of the Loire Valley (including the vineyard of the Château du Nozet estate).

Both clay and limestone influence the delicate characteristics in Ladoucette Baron de L Pouilly-Fumé. This Grande Cuvée of Pouilly Fumé is produced exclusively in the best years and from the first pressing of the estate’s grapes. Winemaker Description. 

A beautifully classic expression of Loire Valley Sauvignon Blanc, the Foucher Lebrun Sancerre “Le Mont” 2025captures the purity, minerality, and freshness that define top-tier Sancerre.

Sourced from carefully selected vineyards across the villages of Sancerre, Chavignol (near the famed Monts Damnés), and d’Amigny, this wine reflects a mosaic of terroirs known for producing wines of precision and character. Vinified and aged entirely in stainless steel, the focus here is on preserving the wine’s natural vibrancy, aromatic lift, and crisp structure.

The nose is immediately expressive, offering elderflower, citrus blossom, and fresh-cut herbs, layered with subtle hints of flint and wet stone. On the palate, it is bright, focused, and mineral-driven, with flavors of lemon zest, green apple, and white peach, all carried by lively acidity and a clean, saline edge.

Elegant yet energetic, this is a benchmark Sancerre—refined, refreshing, and incredibly versatile at the table. Perfect with oysters, shellfish, goat cheese, or simply enjoyed as an aperitif.

Crisp, precise, and unmistakably Sancerre.

Château La Chevillardière Muscadet Sèvre et Maine sur Lie — Loire Valley, France 2024

Château La Chevillardière is one of the Muscadet appellation's most respected estates, farming 88 hectares of Melon de Bourgogne vines on the granite and micaschist soils that define the finest terroirs of Sèvre et Maine. Claude-Michel Pichon took over from his father Raymond in 2009 and has steadily expanded the domaine, acquiring abandoned plots and planting new areas with a clear mission: to elevate Muscadet's reputation and showcase the genuine typicity that only this corner of the Loire can produce. Sur lie aging — resting on the spent yeast cells through the winter — adds texture and complexity while preserving the wine's essential freshness.

The 2024 pours a clear, pale yellow. The nose is delicate and precise — fresh grapes, white flowers, and elegant mineral tones that speak directly to the granite beneath the vines. On the palate, it's dynamic and focused, with a clear emphasis on freshness and aromatic clarity. The finish carries a distinctive saline quality — the hallmark of great Muscadet sur lie — that makes it one of the most food-friendly whites in the world.

"Our whites are characterized by fresh mineral notes and a real typicity — benefiting from a terroir of granite and micaschist." — Claude-Michel Pichon, Château La Chevillardière

• Producer: Château La Chevillardière, Sèvre et Maine, Loire Valley, France
• Vintage: 2024
• Appellation: Muscadet Sèvre et Maine sur Lie AOC
• Varietal: Melon de Bourgogne
• Terroir: Granite and micaschist
• Aging: Sur lie (on lees through winter)
• Size: 750ml
• Tasting Notes: Fresh grapes, white flowers, mineral, saline finish
• Best Paired With: Oysters, mussels, grilled sole, shrimp, fresh goat cheese, light seafood dishes

A benchmark Muscadet sur lie from one of the appellation's most committed estates — mineral, saline, and the perfect companion to anything from the sea.

Expert Reviews - Vintage 2023 

Kristen Bieler writes:  For a demi-sec, this leans toward the dry, savory end of the spectrum. There are a lot of layers and substance to this, with a savory thread of green herbs and bitter white tea weaving through elderflower, quince and apple flavors, while gentle tannins provide a solid frame. Cool river stone and pink peppercorn notes line the finish, encased in smoke and salt, with length and a lot of depth. The toasty cedar notes will integrate with more time in bottle. Drink now through 2037. 740 cases made.  - Wine Spectator 93

Stuart Pigott Writes:  This off-dry Vouvray has terrific depth and a lovely creaminess that’s hard to resist, but it’s tightly wound and needs some time for the aromas to unfurl. With some aeration, red apple and honeysuckle notes emerge. Long, very clean finish that’s pretty dry thanks to the bright acidity. From biodynamically grown grapes. Drink or hold.  - James Suckling 93

Rebecca Gibb MW writes:  The 2023 Vouvray Demi-Sec Le Mont boasts a residual sweetness (20g/l) that brings a sense of tenderness and amplitude to a terroir that's big on precision and tension. The flint component in the soil and the natural freshness of the 2023 vintage provide persistence and momentum. Pure and tender, there’s a distinctive spearmint-like cooling sensation on the long finish.  Drinking 2024 to 2038.  - Vinous 94

Winemaker Description 

Le Berceau de Fees" by Domaine Aux Moines is a lovely and juicy Chenin Blanc from young vineyards of famous Roche-aux-Moines grand cru. It opens on the nose to clean and straight aromas of fruit, flowers and aromatic herbs, surrounded by sharp saltiness. The sip is fresh and direct, animated by great acid shoulder and long mineral persistence. 

95 Points Wine Spectator | This voluptuous, full-bodied, off-dry white shows a lot of power, offering round pear, mango and honeycomb flavors that take a salty turn on the palate, with brine, crushed flint and bitter almond skin, backed by a subtle hint of brioche on the finish. Opening up in the glass, this gorgeous wine offers loads of immediate charm, but should have a long life ahead in the cellar as well.

Taking its roots deep into the chalk soils of Vouvray, this off-dry wine resonates beautifully in the mouth. Its natural sugar and refreshing acidity blend harmoniously. Aerial and complex, this fruity wine is to be appreciated young, but can reveal itself graciously to the ones who wait. Winemaker Description.