Patrick Noel, Sancerre, 2023 core-no-restrictions yet maintains the region's characteristic

yet maintains the region's characteristic minerality and elegance

Roagna—now in their fifth generation of winemaking—farms this site with the patience and precision that defines traditional Piedmont: long macerations

This steep grand cru above the village of Bockenau in the Nahe is almost pure blue Devonian slate

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Patrick Noel, Sancerre, 2023 core-no-restrictions yet maintains the region's characteristicA textbook Sancerre that draws on all three of the appellation's classic soils in one glass. Domaine Patrick Noel, now run by daughter Julie at the foot of the Sancerre hill in Saint Satur, blends Sauvignon Blanc from flinty silex, Kimmeridgian clay limestone (terres blanches), and stony caillottes for a layered, mineral driven white. The family descends from three centuries of Chavignol vignerons, and they bottle only estate fruit fermented with