2022 Henri Bourgeois Sancerre "Les Baronnes", Loire Valley, FranceABOUT THIS WINE The hills and ridges separating the village of Chavignol from Sancerre are composed of clay and limestone (65% clay and 35% chalk). The limestone provides the wine its backbone, while the clay gives it it's flesh. Les Baronnes comes from this terroir that gives wines with fruitiness and vivacity with typical varietal aromas of ripe citrus fruits and white flowers. In order to preserve and develop its aromatic potential, this fine wine

Vinification and Maturing: 3 to 6 weeks in 30-50% new oak barrels

spring dry and late

the 1971 consolidation grouped vineyards smaller than 5 hectares together

half of which comes from the surviving Val do Bibei Mencía & Palomino

Planted on clay-limestone soils

Mathieu Vallée took over

The color of the wine is extracted by a rigorous regime of pumping over and warm fermentation

both in keeping with tradition and remaining open to modern advances

all wines are made from grapes grown on their 51-acre hilltop vineyard located above a river in the far northwestern corner of the West Sonoma Coast

Fontsainte's vineyards

Puligny Montrachet Premier Cru

captain of the bourgeois militia