B-21 Top Recommendation Read More
"What a stunning effort from Reverdy in the difficult 2024 vintage! ... Hats off to the domaine – whatever they did, it worked like a charm." - Andrew Kitz, B-21 Loire Buyer
It's no secret that the 2024 Loire vintage tested everyone's mettle, all the way up to the very top of the hierarchy, so when our Loire buyer found this exceptional offering from Pascal & Nicolas Reverdy, it was a no-brainer to get everything we could get our hands on. Les Coutes is a single parcel of 50-year-old vines on Kimmeridgian limestone that has a reputation for producing densely textured, weighty wines, and that is certainly borne out in 2024, despite the incredibly challenging vintage conditions. As B-21 buyer Andrew Kitz explains, "Many of the 2023s and 2024s I’ve tasted have shown an obvious lack of depth and texture, but the 2024 Les Coutes is not at all short in either department, somehow even outpacing another domaine’s 2022 Chêne Marchand that I tasted along side it." The 2024 Les Coutes shows "pure Sancerre vitality" on the nose along with a "succulent, juicy, textural" palate that conveys everything Sancerre fans are looking for in a top-tier single-vineyard expression. As we said, we took everything we could get, and it wasn't much, so don't miss out on one of the smartest Sancerre buys in our inventory. |