Domaine Daniel Chotard Sancerre 2024 PURYEARSALE sustainably harvested winged kelp

sustainably harvested winged kelp

excellent as an aperitif

a 20-day maceration with gentle pumpovers

This bottling comes off an old dry riverbed about 800 meters from the Bío Bío river

It is pale in the glass and loaded with red fruit

Domaine Daniel Chotard Sancerre 2024 PURYEARSALE sustainably harvested winged kelpDaniel Chotard was a teacher and a musician, and a distinctly reluctant heir to his family's vines in Crezancy en Sancerre, until the work got hold of him and he passed the obsession on to his son Simon, who runs the place today. Simon farms sustainably and feeds the vines with organic compost, but the decision that really defines this wine is when he picks: consistently later than his neighbors. That later harvest, plus time on the lees, gives a