Domaine du Carrou Sancerre 2024

Dominique Roger's Sancerre Blanc needs no introduction as it stands as a classically chiseled showcase of the appellation’s four terroirs.

30% of the vines planted on “Griottes” – soft limestone from the late Jurassic Oxfordian (150 million years old) – giving fruit and lightness

34% on “Caillottes” – hard limestone from the late Jurassic Oxfordian (145 million years old) – bringing fruit, structure, finesse, and chalky minerality

21% on “Terres blanches” – clay-limestone from the late Jurassic Kimmeridgian (140 million years old) – adding complexity, opulence, richness and salinity 

15% on “silex” – flint-rich limestone from the late Jurassic (40 million years old) – adding well-delineated firmness and a flinty minerality.

The grapes are hand-harvested with strict sorting of clusters and disposal of insufficiently ripe grapes before a temperature-controlled fermentation for 3 weeks to 1 month with native yeast. From this, a rich and elegant wine emerges with a delicate saline finish, a whisper of the earth it springs from.