2024 Domaine Auchère Sancerre

Philippe Auchère was born into a Sancerre-growing and sheep farming family, but instead chose to become a professional pastry chef. When he returned to the family farm in 1995, he brought environmental consciousness, a love of natural wine, and a pastry chef's attention to detail to the already impressive old vines and classic limestone-clay terroir. Wines are fermented in tank (with native yeast), then partially finished in large, neutral barrels. Farming is organic, harvesting all by-hand, and none of the wines are hit
with filtration, enzymes, or nutrients. The result is gorgeously elegant, refined, and "pre climate change" style Sancerre. In other words, no aggressive alcohol, no goofy tropical aromas, and no uncharacteristic viscosity. Just classic Sancerre in a style that is a perfectly balanced.