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Sancerre Blanc Les Romains 2016 75cl

Sancerre | Loire | France
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Critics scores
93 Robert Parker
The 2016 Sancerre Les Romains opens with a deep and intense, beautifully floral and herbal bouquet indicating a first maturity and revealing white fruit aromas and some coolish flinty-marly notes. The combination of cool (terroir) and warmth (sun) is really fascinating here. On the palate, the wine is dense yet immediately mature in flavors and fruit aromas, whereas the finish is lively fresh and tensioned, developing good length and stimulating grip and salinity. This is a fascinating wine that should develop with air. So, a carafe is more helpful than a big glass—a wide Burgundy glass should be perfect in any case.
93 Wine Spectator
A piercing rapier of a wine, with a dry, chiseled feel to the flint, chalk and chive notes that remain steely and focused through the finish. A light verbena hint echoes at the very end. Drink now through 2021. 510 cases made.  –JM
Producer
Alphonse Mellot
Perched along the left bank of France’s longest river - the Loire - lies Alphonse Mellot. Located in Sancerre, one of Europe’s great limestone soils, this beautiful region is acclaimed as the greatest producer of Sauvignon Blanc in the world. Here, the century old winemaking tradition has been passed down within the Mellot family from generation to generation, dating all the way back to the 1500s. Alphonse Mellot was, and still is, one of the beacons of quality in the region. With everything done by hand, biodynamically and to impeccable standards, the Mellot family produces the most luminous and authentic representations of the Sauvignon grape.