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Sancerre Sheds Its Clichés: Stéphane Riffault’s Wines Speak in Texture, Tension and the Dialect of Place. * Six-Bottle Set, $249 (Five Whites, One Rosé)

A communion with the soil is the most important relationship a winemaker will ever forge, and nowhere is this demonstrated more reliably than in Sancerre, where three distinct soil types produce a split-personality of wine characteristics. This may be something…

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Posted on 2025.06.26 in Pouilly-Fumé, Sancerre, Chablis, Petit Chablis, France, Wine-Aid Packages, Loire  |  Read more...

 


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