2023 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Belle Dame Rouge, Loire, France Mac Forbes easy-drinking red

easy-drinking red

Nc’nean’s organic single malt is creamy

the soil characteristics here are quite similar to the the base of the Eisenberg hill

Classic vertical press

2023 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Belle Dame Rouge, Loire, France Mac Forbes easy-drinking redMost people, when tasting the Belle Dame, a cuve of 50 year old vines of Pinot Noir grown on pure flint soils, compare it to Burgundy. It understandable and unfortunate at the same time as this is a terror quite distinct from anything in Burgundy further north and on hard flinty soils. Before phylloxera, Sancerre was renown as Pinot Noir country, and justly so. Sadly, there are few producers, like Vacheron, who care enough to prove just how amazing