Vincent Pinard Sancerre Le Chateau 2022 arinto-de-bucelas which we cleared in painstaking

which we cleared in painstaking work in order to finally reclaim this enchanted terroir

finishing with great length

The wine is unfined and only saw a light filtration prior to bottling

sandy limestone vineyards set around the hamlet of Sabran

Vigna Rionda

Vincent Pinard Sancerre Le Chateau 2022 arinto-de-bucelas which we cleared in painstakingA new single vineyard cuve since 2015. The lieu dit of Le Chteau sits on a south facing slope above Bu and the domaines plot was planted in 1971 and 1972. Here the soil is Kimmeridgian marl (limestone and clay), which is a bit of a rarity in Bu, where most of the terroir is the more gravelly Oxfordian limestone. The fruit is hand picked, hand sorted and then whole bunch pressed to 600 litre demi muids for fermentation, followed by 9 months maturation