Francois Crochet Sancerre Le Chene Marchand 2021 750ml

Certified Organic, Practicing Biodynamic. 100% Sauvignon Blanc. ‘Le Petit Chemarin’ is a south/south-east facing chalky soil vineyard, regarded as one of the best in the Sancerre village of Bué. The vineyard has been farmed organically for several years and is officially AB certified since 2017. Conversion to biodynamics since 2020. In farming, hoeing is performed to remove weeds between each vine in the row. Debudding in Spring. Grapes are hand-harvested and rigorously sorted. Whole grape pressing is done in a sequential program to allow for a very gentle extraction. After a settling period, the juice is racked and the alcoholic fermentation – with natural yeasts since 2019 — takes place in a ‘tronc conique’ oak vat. When completed, the wine is matured on its fine lees for 18 months since vintage 2019 (vs 11 months up until 2018.) Cold settling and filtering on cellulose plates before bottling. Unfined.