The 2023 Sancerre “Chêne Marchand” from the Crochet family is a superb example of this fine vineyard. The bouquet is bright and complex, hopping from the glass in a mix of lime, green apple, gooseberry, complex limestone minerality, a dollop of grassiness and a topnote of white flowers. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, crisp and youthfully structured, with a superb core of fruit, great mineral undertow, a fine spine of acidity and grip and excellent precision and balance on the long and complex finish. This is of course very tasty already, but it is still clearly youthful and more generosity on the palate will emerge if the wine is given a bit of bottle aging to allow it to fully blossom.
93 points, John Gilman, View From The Cellar (Aug 2025)
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