2013 Sancerre, Les Monts Damnés, Domaine Pascal Cotat

2013 Sancerre, Les Monts Damnés, Domaine Pascal Cotat

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2013 Sancerre, Les Monts Damnés, Domaine Pascal Cotat

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Francois’s family are fortunate to own plots (amounting to 1.3ha) in the heart of this famous Chavignol escarpment, so giving their 25-30 year old vines a soil that has a good limestone/clay balance. Its strong, definite personality is unwavering from vintage to vintage; its quality assured. In 2013 it’s got emphatic presence, along with grapefruit & floral charm, plenty of white fruit flesh. The noble rot/botrytis played its card in Monts Damnes, hence the pulpy almost cassis notes on the palate, along with plenty of detail, while being all the while delicate and persistent. Yields were normal at 50hl/ha. 
David Berry Green - Loire buyer

At just 1ha30 in size, this is the biggest parcel held by the domaine. There is a real feeling of biting into a grape here, as the sudden burst of ripe, fleshy fruit takes you aback. The juicy white peach flavours then give way to a fine core of mineral tension, leaving the overall impression of fragility and delicacy underneath the initial brash exterior.
Gary Owen - Private Account Manager

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Domaine Pascal Cotat

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Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon Blanc

An important white grape in Bordeaux and the Loire Valley that has now found fame in New Zealand and now Chile. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux and is blended with Sémillon to produce fresh, dry, crisp  Bordeaux Blancs, as well as more prestigious Cru Classé White Graves.

It is also blended with Sémillon, though in lower proportions, to produce the great sweet wines of Sauternes. It performs well in the Loire Valley and particularly on the well-drained chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, where it produces bone dry, highly aromatic, racy wines, with grassy and sometimes smoky, gunflint-like nuances.

In New Zealand, Cloudy Bay in the 1980s began producing stunning Sauvignon Blanc wines with extraordinarily intense nettly, gooseberry, and asparagus fruit, that set Marlborough firmly on the world wine map. Today many producers are rivalling Cloudy Bay in terms of quality and Sauvignon Blanc is now New Zealand`s trademark grape.

It is now grown very successfully in Chile producing wines that are almost halfway between the Loire and New Zealand in terms of fruit character. After several false starts, many South African producers are now producing very good quality, rounded fruit-driven Sauvignon Blancs.

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