Pascal Cotat Mont Damnes Chavignol Sancerre 2024 Big Bottle and it earns it: dry-stone

and it earns it: dry-stone terraces climb steep

with 15 percent Tinta Negra from Estreito de Câmara de Lobos

with fine-grained tannins and vibrant acidity drawing the wine into mineral tension

The domaine is the Beaujolais venture of Frédéric and Chantal Lafarge of Volnay

long macerations

Pascal Cotat Mont Damnes Chavignol Sancerre 2024 Big Bottle and it earns it: dry-stonePascal Cotat farms a small parcel of old Sauvignon Blanc on the steep south facing slope of Les Monts Damns, the most storied vineyard in Chavignol. Kimmeridgian limestone and clay, almost no topsoil, and a hillside steep enough that everything is worked by hand. The fruit is harvested very late, fermented with native yeasts in old foudres, and bottled unfined and unfiltered. The wine that comes out is dense, smoky, and saline, with citrus pith and