Alphonse Mellot La Moussiere Sancerre Blanc 2023

Lively like the look in your eyes, sweet like a kiss. Very fine gold color with a green sheen. Its nose has a flowery fruity bouquet. Being pure and honest is seducer from the outset. Flowers flit around, trees bend down to give their most beautiful fruits to us and the air we breathe is so sweet in this garden full of sweetness that it is intoxicating. Lively, supple and welcoming taste. Predominantly honest in a welcoming balance, it reflects a pretty grape, a fine harvest in the singing and laughter of the men and women pickers. It tells us of work well done in the divine order and Nature’s kindness. It is fair, and all one expected and to cap it all there is happiness there.

Pairs well with fish tartare, mussels ” la Charentaise”, pike with white butter sauce, chanterelle mushroom omelet, baked Norway lobsters, trout meunire, pike in saffron, braised ham with white sauce, tripe cooked the Caen way, Chavignol goats milk cheeses, and puff pastries.

Critical Acclaim

93 Wine Enthusiast

Grown on the famed Kimmeridgian chalk of Sancerre, this wine is intense, tightly wound with young fruits and acidity. With its power, dense green-fruit flavors and a steely edge, the wine is set for aging. Drink from 2022. Organic and biodynamic.

91 Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2019 Sancerre La Moussire is quite rich, ripe and intense on the yeasty nose that represents a coolish, calcareous marl terroir with really old vines (roughly 60 years old). The fruit is reminiscent of ripe, yellow apples with just a discreet tone of gooseberries. Rich and intense on the palate, this is a powerful and, for now, quite creamy-textured Sancerre that lacks a bit of esprit, freshness and tension. The wine reveals fine tannins instead and might develop well over the years in the bottle but is definitely from a warmer, sunnier vintage. 14% alcohol. Tasted in November 2020.