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Vines & Wines
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Vineyards size
20 Hectares
Farming Lutte raisonnée
The top value of the domaineEach wine is showing the quality of the soil and the purity of the work of Philippe.
Change the farming trying to be organic" lutte raisonnée", as well to work more vineyard by vineyard to show top cuvées from his different terroirs. He is so well know that he is the responsible for research on farming for the Sancerre appellation.
He built a modern cuverie to be more efficient at harvest, but also to get the time to raise the wines slowly on lies and get complexity
A few woodsWines are very expressive and each cuvée has its own personality
The winesThe basic Sancerre is Apud Sariacum, it is done with grapes only coming from the area of Sury-en-Vaux.
Sancerre les Godons is a single parcel wine which looks like a natural amphitheater.
The 2 Pouilly Fumé that he is doing are quite different due to the differences in the soils
Wine makingSustainable farming, plowing,...
Harvest :part by machine, part hand picked, end of September. Picked ripe to insure complexity.
NATIVE yeasts.
SANCERRE LES FOSSILES: Association of different vineyards in Sancerre and Sury, long time on lies to get complexity. Bottling in April after a light filtration
