Loire

90 points Vinous"The 2022 Mosaîque Calcaire, the newly named domaine Sancerre, has a delightful texture. It's tender yet refined, lightly caressing the palate. It shows a touch of wood with the white nectarine fruit. The 2022 is an...

Vinous Reverie NotesNatter Sancerre is one of last values out of the region. Sancerre needs no introduction since its meteoric rise in popularity. But it is interesting to note that Natter is the only winegrower in the Montigny commune. The family...

Vinous Reverie NotesThe famed Sancerre offers some of the best expression of Sauvignon-Blanc in France. The Raimbault Family has been producing wine in Sancerre for 10 Generations. The Raimbault family has been growing vines since the mid-17th...

94 points Vinous"The 2022 Montlouis-sur-Loire Les Hauts de Husseau hails from a site with vines between 80 and 110 years old. It,s a finely scented, silken style that provides a mellow sense of effortlessness on the mid-palate before it structures itself...

92 points John Gilman, View from the Cellar"The 2020 Coteaux du Loir “l’Effraie” bottling from Domaine de Bellivière is fairly similar statistically to the les Rosiers, as the wine finished up its fermentation with sixteen grams...

Vinous Reverie NotesThis nine-generation estate, formally called Domaine Des Cotes Blanches Nicolas Millet, is based in Bué, and is a 19-hectare mosaic of 40 tiny plots. Current Vigneron Nicolas Millet has converted everything to...

Vinous Reverie NotesAnyone looking for the best houses in the Sancerre region will sooner or later come across the brothers Clément and Florent Pinard. They are 15 generations old and experienced winemakers. The winery is named after the brothers'...

95 points Vinous"The 2022 Le Mont Sec is a parcel of Chenin planted on clay with scattered flint, giving a certain tension to the style you certainly don't find in the come-hither Clos du Bourg. Its supple, concentrated core of fruit sits within a...

95 points Vinous"The 2022 Le Mont Demi-Sec is less fruity and charming than, say, Clos du Bourg; its tension and line come from its flinty terroir. Despite its 21g/L residual sugar, it retains a sense of tautness without being totally linear. Radish and...

91 points Wine Enthusiast"This wine has a nose of bruised golden apple, Sweethearts candy, honeydew melon and just-ripened white peach stonefruit. On the palate, it reveals some chalkiness that follows through to a lemon-citrus tinged finish. Drink...

96 points Decanter"Jean-Michel and Michelle Masson took over the running of the family domaine in 1975, and their daughter Mélanie and son Pierre-François are now fully involved. Today they have 21ha in Pouilly-Fumé and Sancerre...

96 points James Suckling"Hold on to your hat! The nose of this extraordinary dry chenin blanc is right on the borderline between summer flowers and floral hone, and it pulls you inexorably into this extremely vibrant and mineral wine. Astonishing...