Alphonse Mellot Sancerre La Moussiere 2024 CS20230804 a memory of freshly cut

a memory of freshly cut hay

crafting terroir-driven wines with an emphasis on biodiversity and minimal intervention

and several months on fine lees give the wine a subtle creaminess to frame all that maritime cut

and you feel it here as concentration without any added weight

Alphonse Mellot Sancerre La Moussiere 2024 CS20230804 a memory of freshly cutLa 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