Sancerre blanc “Guigne-Chèvres” AOC 2019

The single vineyard Guigne-Chèvres is situated on a gently sloping hillside with a northeastern exposure. The soils are characterized by red clay on Caillottes, the marly Oxford limestone from the Jura. The vines are almost 40 years old. This wine is aged on its lees for ten months in Stockinger barrels.

pale straw yellow

Of the 2019 single-vineyard Sancerres, the likely Guigne-Chèvres The Sauvignon Blanc is currently the most profound, but also the most closed. If you give it time, then the image of a Sauvignon Blanc develops in the glass, which is as clear and pure as a mountain stream. It smells of wet stones, of salt lemons and iodine, of a little oyster shell, a little smoke and of white currants including leaves.

On the palate the Guigne-Chèvres a tightly woven and tense web of bright citrus aromas, herbs and rocky notes, lime zest and white pepper. The acidity is beguilingly present, demanding and punchy, the minerality vibrant, the stoniness and saltiness additionally lively, mouthwatering and delicious. Thereby the Sancerre currently still quite shy and will need a few more years to fully develop. He will definitely need a decade, maybe even a decade and a half.