2019 Sancerre Les Denisottes
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The 2019 Sancerre Les Denisottes lures you in with its deeply satisfying, mellow embrace. It fills the mouth with its nectarine and mandarin flavors as well as savory nuances derived from fermentation and maturation on lees in barrel; however, it is not heavy and gives the impression of floating as if it were a plump ghost. Despite a dry, hot season, the wine suggests that the old vines (40–50 years old) planted on Kimmeridgian marls have not suffered; if they did, they're doing a pretty good job of hiding it. Lengthy and luxuriant.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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Terres blanches. Slightly muted nose. Then really rich on the palate – almost too rich to be guessable as Sancerre blind! (JR)
From 40- to 53-year-old vines in a southeast-facing vineyard at 260 meters in altitude where the vines root in pretty shallow Kimmeridgian soils (only 80 centimeters of topsoil), the 2019 Sancerre Les Denisottes opens deep, fresh and flinty on the coolish, dense and highly expressive nose that is fascinatingly complex and stony while the fruit remains in the background. Full-bodied, intense and tightly structured on the palate, this is a long, tight and very complex Sancerre with power, juice, extract, grip and a stimulatingly fine and salty finish. This is a deep, wide and generous as well as sustainable Sancerre of great class and youth. Highly promising. Take a Burgundy glass for this Denisottes that even reveals some gin and cucumber aromatics… Tasted in February 2021.