Riffault Sancerre
| Vintage: | 2019 |
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| Description: | Winemaker Notes\r\n\r\n\r\nLes Boucauds is sourced from several plots near the cellar of Claude Riffault. These sites account for about 50% of the Sauvignon Blanc planted on the estate. They are on Terres Blanches soils \u2013 marls and clays over Kimmeridgian limestone.\r\nThe 2019 Sancerre Les Boucauds is sourced 22- to 50-year-old southeast-facing vines on terres blanches and Kimmeridgian marl soils at 220 to 235 meters in altitude. It offers a bright, intense and slightly flinty bouquet of ripe stone fruit and pear aromas intertwined with delicate flint stone notes. Full-bodied, fresh and elegant on the palate, this is an intense, quite rich and powerful, textured, piquant and finely salty Sancerre with a long, elegant and quite powerful but balanced finish. The finish reveals a good grip and a dash of fresh lemon and apple juice.\r\nRobert Parker 91 Points\r\nAbout Domaine Claude Riffault\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDomaine Claude Riffault, which has been family-owned and run for five generations, is now in the hands of Claude\u2019s son St\u00e9phane who is working the soil in a much more organic fashion than his father. Chemical herbicides are no longer used on the parcels and there is a heavy weed cover in most of the parcels. The family owns 33 different (and quite small) plots on steep hillsides in four different villages. Part of the vineyard is made up of limestone soil which produces while vines with great fruit and explosive aromas. They also own a smaller amount of vines on flint soil which produces wines of incredible minerality and precision. The vines are ll vinified by plot and by soil type before some are assembled to make a small number of bottlings. |
| Price: | $ 34.99 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Available from BASSER’S Fine Wine
| Address: |
6240 Coral Ridge Drive Coral Springs, FL 33076 United States |
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| Telephone (regular): | 954-840-3122 |
First added to 1000 Corks on July 21, 2021.
