Still, sparkling wine, dessert wine, rosé Fermented and aged solely in stainless steel, Crochet crafts an energetic, mercurial style of Sancerre with fine lines and pointed complexities.French wine region Loire Valley Wine regionĪnjou, Nantes, Saumur, Touraine, Centre-Val de LoireĬhenin blanc, Sauvignon blanc, Cabernet franc, Melon de Bourgogne, Gamay, Pinot noir and more Aside from the mix of tiny parcels too small to have their own cuvée, the majority of the mix comes from each of the vineyards that are bottled as single site wines. What is most interesting about Crochet’s entry-level Sancerre blanc is that it is an assemblage of dozens of small vineyards from every aspect (from north, south, east and west), steep to flat sites, numerous geological formations, including the hard, silica-based sedimentary rock ( silex, or chert/flint stone), various limestone formations of soft, powdery chalk (referred to locally as grillot), medium-hard chalky limestone ( caillottes), and other limestone marls the only famous geological formation missing in his range is the kimmeridgian marl, a rock formation similar to what is found in Chablis, known in Sancerre as Terres Blanches.
François Crochet’s range of wines deliver an enjoyable course in understanding how these changes can influence a wine under the same hand. The climate is more or less the same, but the great variations between the wines come from what one would expect regarding each parcel’s slope aspect and gradient, genetic material, geological setting, and ultimately what is done in the cellar. One can also find quite a lot of red and brown clay soils that are clearly marked with a good dose of iron.Īside from the simplicity of working with only two grape varieties, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir, Sancerre is a tremendously diverse appellation from one commune to the next. The rest of the vineyard land is a mixture of limestone marl, chalk and flint. In the case of Sancerre, the most famous rock here is called Kimmeridgian, which is made primarily of an ancient tiny sea creature that closely resembles today’s oyster. The ocean deposited all sorts of calcium rich shells from ancient sea-life.
#Sancerre wine grape series
The Sancerre region sits on top of a series of hills and small valleys that were once under the ocean. While Sancerre makes red wines from the Pinot Noir grape, it is most famous for the white Sancerre made from Sauvignon Blanc. Sancerre is one of the fastest selling wines in the market because they offer great value for the price.
It is located on the left bank of one of France’s most famous rivers, the Loire. Sancerre is one of the most famous places in France for white wine. I don’t know how he does it, but the wine finds such a perfect balance of power, beauty and finesse. Counterintuitively, the wine doesn’t have the green pepper notes that one would expect from wines harvested so early. He is one of the first to pick in Sancerre so the acidity of his wines rage. François took over his father’s winery not too long ago and has been turning heads everywhere, first in France and now here. After school, he cut his teeth by working at Domaine Bruno Clair. He is one of the most passionate people I have ever met.įrançois graduated from the famous enology school in Beaune, France. It was that moment that I understood how intense of a perfectionist François is. He smiled, then an eruption of extremely intense French came at me like a philosophical freight train. His bright blue laser eyes dug in and his mouth was moving a mile a minute. The first time I met François, he was very quiet. Then, I made the mistake of telling him that his French was articulate and very clear- a much easier accent to understand than those from the south of the France.
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