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$12.95The Story
Les Sables is named for what it grows in: sand and silica over limestone bedrock, Cour-Cheverny's recipe for a white that is all nerve. It's 100% Romorantin — a grape that exists nowhere on the planet but this fifty-hectare corner of the Loire — from vines twenty to forty years old. Tessier ferments with native yeasts and ages the wine in foudre and demi-muid before a stretch in stainless steel, which puts flesh on the frame without leaving any oak taste behind. Denser than the domaine's basic Cour-Cheverny, more immediately approachable than La Porte Doree. Serve it cold and don't be surprised when it turns out to be the most interesting white on the table.
Description
Les Sables is named for what it grows in: sand and silica over limestone bedrock, Cour-Cheverny's recipe for a white that is all nerve. It's 100% Romorantin — a grape that exists nowhere on the planet but this fifty-hectare corner of the Loire — from vines twenty to forty years old. Tessier ferments with native yeasts and ages the wine in foudre and demi-muid before a stretch in stainless steel, which puts flesh on the frame without leaving any oak taste behind. Denser than the domaine's basic Cour-Cheverny, more immediately approachable than La Porte Doree. Serve it cold and don't be surprised when it turns out to be the most interesting white on the table.
