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Ready, but will keep,
From the Domaine’s oldest vines, up to 80 years old, planted in tightly-packed soil made up of larger flints and clay. The flagship wine of the Domaine combining richness, breadth and power with minerality and freshness.
A pungent, attractively complex nose of lime citrus, hint of kerosene and resinous herbs. Mouth wateringly vibrant flowing into a mid-palate iron like grip, crushed stone and oyster shell. The wine grips the palate with a tannic fruit pith like grip. A serious wine with a long bitter sweet finish, buoyant and well balanced. 2016-2025+.
Stuart Rae, Private Account Manager
A pungent, attractively complex nose of lime citrus, hint of kerosene and resinous herbs. Mouth wateringly vibrant flowing into a mid-palate iron like grip, crushed stone and oyster shell. The wine grips the palate with a tannic fruit pith like grip. A serious wine with a long bitter sweet finish, buoyant and well balanced. 2016-2025+.
Stuart Rae, Private Account Manager
Domaine Francois Cotat, Chavignol,
Ready, but will keep,
Richer, ‘bigger’ nose than Les Caillottes Anise/fennel. A step up in concentration. Excellent balance of acidity and fruit. Mineral, with outstanding potential. Still a little closed but excellent length. Very little sugar, less than 3g/l. Most immediately appealing of the selection.
Adam Bruntlett
Francois’s Monts Damnés is clearly the best example of this famous Sancerre Cru! Faithful to the nervy vintage, this wine is cool, compact, a taut, tightly coiled core of briny minerality, such tension, his use of old oak in vinification giving this wine a spectacular Island malt saltiness, very succinct, needs time, plenty of time, drinking from 2015 to 2025.
David Berry Green
Adam Bruntlett
Francois’s Monts Damnés is clearly the best example of this famous Sancerre Cru! Faithful to the nervy vintage, this wine is cool, compact, a taut, tightly coiled core of briny minerality, such tension, his use of old oak in vinification giving this wine a spectacular Island malt saltiness, very succinct, needs time, plenty of time, drinking from 2015 to 2025.
David Berry Green
Domaine Francois Cotat, Chavignol,
Drink now,
Noticeably deeper in colour than in previous vintage, a sign of the smaller yield. Rich crushed strawberry and redcurrant on the nose. Creamy texture, weighty, punchy. Big and powerful, but not unbalanced. As François said, this is not a wine to be drunk ‘sur la terrasse en plein soleil’!
Adam Bruntlett
Leaving aside the elegant bottle and label, at 14% alchohol, this Sancerre rosé is decidedly lush, almost Tuscan like, with heavenly scented aromas of red berries. The palate is a bitter-sweet bundle of joy, with notes of pink grapefruit pith, all totally at ease and delicious! Drinking now to 2018.
David Berry Green
Adam Bruntlett
Leaving aside the elegant bottle and label, at 14% alchohol, this Sancerre rosé is decidedly lush, almost Tuscan like, with heavenly scented aromas of red berries. The palate is a bitter-sweet bundle of joy, with notes of pink grapefruit pith, all totally at ease and delicious! Drinking now to 2018.
David Berry Green
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For all that, the wine has a dynamism and energy which is hard not to appreciate, its red-fruit core finely balanced by spice and firm, almost chalky tannins. The additional bottle-age on this particular wine has added an extra dimension, in the form of notes of game and sous-bois, both discrete and supportive of the ensemble.