White-fleshed stone fruits
The varietal blend is 30% Pinot Noir
and impossibly elegant—this is Volnay at its most seductive
crafting terroir-driven wines with an emphasis on biodiversity and minimal intervention
a memory of freshly cut hay
Alphonse Mellot Sancerre La Moussiere 2024 CS20230804 White-fleshed stone fruitsLa Moussiere is the beating heart of the Mellot estate, a single 34 hectare sweep of limestone hillside that the family farms as its flagship, biodynamically, generation after nineteenth generation. This is the wine that makes the case for Sancerre as one of the great white terroirs of France. All Sauvignon Blanc, rested on its lees and raised across wood, concrete, and steel, it's fresh and finely cut, with citrus, a green herbal snap, and that