2022 Denizot Sancerre Rouge

In 2016, Beaune-trained Thibaut Denizot, and his wife Jennifer, took over the family’s 18.5 ha estate in the unsung Sancerre-producing village of Amigny, where they still have 65% of their parcels. Located in the west of the appellation, the soils are what the Sancerrois call Caillotes (chalky pebbles). The rest of the domaine being based in Verdigny, also on caillotes, as well as in Chavignol, iconic village with steep slopes of kimmeridgian chalk, which account for 10%. More recently they also acquired 2.5ha of Pouilly Fumé, on the Silex Terroir of Saint Andelin, made famous as being home of Didier Dagueneau. This mosaic of Terroir nuances offers a wide aroma