2023 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Belle Dame Rouge, Loire, France David Moreau The fruit is grown and

The fruit is grown and hand harvested from the No Clos Radio Vineyard in Tualatin Hills sub-AVA of the Willamette Valley

Les Montes de Bruyeres and La Porte des Grand Champs

Pressing: Free run and pressings combined

60 cm of clay limestone topsoil with traces of chalk and layers of tuffe below

Making of: the grapes are hand-harvested

2023 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Belle Dame Rouge, Loire, France David Moreau The fruit is grown andMost people, when tasting the Belle Dame, a cuve of 50 year old vines of Pinot Noir grown on pure flint soils, compare it to Burgundy. It understandable and unfortunate at the same time as this is a terror quite distinct from anything in Burgundy further north and on hard flinty soils. Before phylloxera, Sancerre was renown as Pinot Noir country, and justly so. Sadly, there are few producers, like Vacheron, who care enough to prove just how amazing