This Sauvignon, a clear colour with a golden tint, gives off aromas of white blossom and beeswax. Round, full and lively, it is fresh and has a delicate finish in the mouth.
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2024 Chapeau Melon Blanc, Jérémie Huchet
£1450Add to BasketThe Chapeau Melon Blanc is a remarkable French wine, a pure expressive display of the Melon de Bourgogne grape. Originating from the Loire Valley, this wine has a crisp, clean profile, offering a delightful balance between acidic and fruity flavours. Notable hints of green apple, melon, and zesty lemon linger in its bouquet, whilst a pronounced mineral finish emanates from its maritime vineyard roots. A versatile wine, it pairs beautifully with seafood and rich cheeses alike.
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2020 Valencay ‘Le Claux Delorme’, Domaines Minchin
£1700Add to BasketBright aromas of citrus zest, peach and pear are complemented by hints of eucalyptus and a distinctive minerality. Refreshing and beautifully balanced, with citrus and floral notes leading a long, elegant finish.
Valençay became an AOC appellation in 2003 and is situated in the eastern part of the Loire Valley, approximately 60 miles west of Sancerre. The terroir is characterised by clay, limestone and flinty soils which impart the distinctive mineral characters to the wine. The region is influenced by the northern, cool climate, resulting in lively wines from grapes with characteristic high levels of acidity. Domaine Minchin is certified by Haute Valeur Environmentale and the vineyards are managed according to a strict sustainable philosophy, known as la lutte raisonnée. The vineyard is planted with grass, and the soil is tilled and worked to ensure the health and vigour of the vine, while encouraging beneficial biodiversity.
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2023 Entre Deux Mers, Château Lestrille
£1895Add to BasketA fantastic blend bringing intense aromas of citrus, lime and pear on the nose and unveiling an expressive mineral character on the palate. This wine is lively with good length and shows remarkable balance.
Château Lestrille holds the Haute Valeur Environmentale (HVE) certification, which officially recognises the environmental performance of winegrowers, including biodiversity conservation, plant protection strategies, managed fertiliser use and water resource management. The vineyard is cultivated using sustainable methods and reducing the amount of chemicals used in order to respect the land and its environment. The soils are predominantly clay and limestone, which produce elegant wines.
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2023 Pouilly Fume ‘Les Loges’, Domaine des Rabichattes
£2495Add to BasketLes Loges is a complex and harmonious Pouilly Fumé. This traditional cuvée is the result of a blend of around thirty plots with clay-limestone soils and Kimmeridgian marls.
In the glass, this wine opens with a varied bouquet of white flowers, lemon, green fresh herbs and a fresh mineral touch. The palate is invigorating and crystalline with a touch of saltiness that is characteristic of Pouilly’s great wines.
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2024 Sancerre Les Caillottes, Vincent Dauny
£2495Add to BasketThe Dauny family has been growing vines in Sancerre since 1683, making Vincent Dauny one of the oldest winegrowing names in the region. Today, Vincent represents the 13th generation to carry forward this remarkable legacy. Committed to sustainable and environmentally friendly practices, the estate has farmed organically for many years, well before it became fashionable, demonstrating a deep respect for the land and its expression.
The Les Caillottes cuvée takes its name from the prized caillottes soils, composed of small, white, chalky stones that are known for producing the most elegant and mineral-driven wines in the Sancerre appellation. These well-draining soils, combined with ideal vineyard exposure and cool continental climate, result in grapes of exceptional purity and aromatic precision.
In the glass, Les Caillottes opens with vibrant aromas of citrus blossom, gooseberry, and freshly cut herbs, layered with crushed limestone and hints of white peach. The palate is crisp, focused, and finely textured, with flavours of grapefruit, green apple, and lime zest gliding over a core of mouthwatering acidity. The signature caillottes (chalky pebbles) impart a flinty minerality and taut structure, leading to a long, clean, and elegantly saline finish.
This is a quintessential Sancerre, refined, expressive, and built for both casual sipping and fine dining.
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2023 Sancerre, J. de Villebois
£2795Add to BasketA textured and richly flavoured Sancerre with intense herbaceous, gooseberry and citrus aromas, beautifully balanced by a vibrant and refreshing crisp palate.
The Sancerre appellation in Central France surrounds the eponymous town, which sits atop a hill overlooking the River Loire. The grapes for this cuvée are grown in vineyards which are located on these hilly slopes and are planted across the three main soil types of Sancerre. Les Caillottes, which is made up of a high proportion of stony fragments of coarse Kimmeridgian limestone upon a clay subsoil and the wines from these soils impart aromatic structure and freshness; Les Terres Blanches which are made up of Kimmeridgian marl and is extremely rich in fossilised shellfish and has the distinctive characteristic of turning white when it dries, hence its local name, which translates as ‘white earth’. These wines from this soil offer complexity, opulence and great aromatic finesse. Finally the flinty Silex soils which impart minerality; all three soils types have the common thread of a high proportion of clay.
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2023 Pouilly-Fumé, J. de Villebois
£2795Add to BasketThe subtle combination of smoky and ripe fruit aromas preludes a palate of candied pineapple, peach and mango flavours. Elegant and fresh, with the characteristic smoky note of a great Pouilly Fumé.
Pouilly-Fumé is the Sauvignon Blanc appellation located on the Right Bank of the Loire River. The appellation was created in 1937 originally as Blanc Fumé de Pouilly. Pouilly- Fumé takes its name from Pouilly-sur-Loire, the village from which the wines originate; while ‘Fume’ refers to Blanc Fumé, the local synonym for Sauvignon Blanc. Fumé translates as ‘smoky’, which denotes the struck gunflint notes that characterise the wines. The Sauvignon Blanc grapes that produced this cuvée are grown on the main Pouilly Fumé terroirs of Villiers and Barrois, where the soils are made up of limestone, marls with oyster shells and clayey-flint ‘Silex’ soils. It is these flinty ‘Silex’ soils, which impart the characteristic smoky flavours in the wine.
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2023 Les Racines Pouilly Fume, Domaine A Cailbourdin
£2895Add to BasketDomaine A. Cailbourdin is one of the benchmark producers of Pouilly-Fumé, located in the heart of the Loire Valley. Established in 1980 by Alain Cailbourdin, the domaine is renowned for its precise, terroir-expressive Sauvignon Blancs. Based in the famed village of Saint-Andelain, the estate focuses on sustainable viticulture and minimal intervention in the cellar, allowing the Loire’s diverse soils, especially flint (silex), limestone, and clay, to express their personality in the glass. Today, Alain is joined by his son Loïc, continuing the family’s legacy of crafting elegant, mineral-driven wines that age beautifully.
The 2023 Les Racines cuvée, meaning “The Roots”, is a tribute to the domaine’s deepest heritage, made from some of its oldest vines planted on flinty limestone soils. This wine captures the essence of Pouilly-Fumé with clarity, purity, and understated power.
In the glass, it offers a brilliant pale gold hue with vibrant aromatics of lime blossom, green apple, grapefruit peel, and a hallmark gunflint minerality. The palate is tense and focused, delivering layers of citrus, white peach, and wet stone, supported by racy acidity and a clean, saline finish. There’s a subtle roundness and texture that balances the wine’s freshness, offering both immediate appeal and cellaring potential.
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2022 Sancerre ‘Les Poitevinnes’, Domaine Serge Laloue
£3300Add to BasketSerge Laloue has always been one of our favourite winemakers in the Loire, making incredible Sancerre. His ‘Les Poitevinnes’ Cuvee is an elegant and complex expression of Sancerre, with concentrated Mirabelle plum and peach underpinned by delicate hints of liquorice, anise and mineral notes. The lovely rounded texture on the palate is beautifully framed by mineral freshness.
The grapes are grown in 0.55 hectares of vineyard within the estate, from vines with an average age of 30 to 35 years. The vines face a south-easterly orientation, maximising exposure to the sun to assist the ripening of the berries. The soils are predominantly calcareous clay, which typically has a high limestone content, producing elegant and textured wines with distinctive minerality. The vineyard is currently in conversion to organic status, a natural progression for the Laloue family as the farming methods used over many years have followed these principles. Vineyard management techniques include ploughing the soil instead of using herbicides, growing cover crops between the rows of vines and sexual confusion of predators, to maintain the health of the vines and the biodiversity of the environment.
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2022 Sancerre Cuvee Silex, Domaine Serge Laloue
£3495Add to BasketSerge Laloue has always been one of our favourite winemakers in the Loire, making incredible Sancerre. This we think is their finest Cuvee, crafted by Franck Laloue the Sancerre Silex has intense aromas of smoky graphite with mineral notes of oyster shell that are complemented by zesty orange peel and Mirabelle plum. This fresh, supple cuvée delivers concentrated citrus flavours through to a bright and uplifting mineral finish.
The grapes come from a three-hectare estate vineyard, where the vines have an average age of 40 years, producing low yields of concentrated fruit. The vines face a south-easterly orientation, maximising exposure to the sun to assist ripening of the berries. The soils are ‘silex’, a flinty clay that produces elegant wines with distinctive graphite and mineral characters. The vineyard is currently in conversion to organic status, a natural progression for the Laloue family as the farming methods used over many years have followed these principles. Vineyard management techniques include ploughing the soil instead of using herbicides, growing cover crops between the rows of vines and sexual confusion of predators, to maintain the health of the vines and the biodiversity of the environment.
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2023 Pouilly Fume, Chateau de Tracy
£3495Add to BasketChâteau de Tracy is a historic wine estate, regarded by many as one of the finest producers of Sauvignon Blanc in the Loire. Château de Tracy’s Pouilly-Fumé remains a benchmark of the appellation, elegant, precise, and deeply expressive, it captures the purity and complexity of Loire Valley Sauvignon Blanc at its finest.
In the glass, it opens with a lifted bouquet of white flowers, lime blossom, grapefruit zest, and fresh-cut grass, underpinned by subtle flinty minerality, a hallmark of the Kimmeridgian and silex-rich soils. On the palate, the wine is vibrant and beautifully balanced, delivering layers of citrus, green apple, and gooseberry, wrapped in a fine, chalky texture. Crisp acidity provides tension and drive, while a smoky nuance lingers gracefully on the long, refreshing finish. A poised, terroir-driven wine that speaks clearly of its noble origins.
The estate is renowned for its traditional and sustainable vineyard practices, characterised by a deep respect for biodiversity and soil health. The 2023 vintage reflects a cool, balanced growing season that favoured slow ripening, preserving aromatic intensity and freshness. Fermented and aged in stainless steel to retain purity, this wine is a classic expression of terroir-driven Sauvignon Blanc, offering both precision and longevity.
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2023 Sancerre Flores, Domaine Vincent Pinard
£3595Add to BasketDomaine Vincent Pinard is one of the most esteemed names in Sancerre, located in the village of Bué, a commune renowned for its exceptional Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir. The Pinard family has been rooted in the region for over 20 generations, with brothers Clément and Florent Pinard now at the helm, continuing the domaine’s legacy of low-intervention, terroir-driven winemaking.
The 2023 Sancerre ‘Flores’ from Domaine Vincent Pinard is a masterfully crafted Sauvignon Blanc, vibrant, mineral-laced, and effortlessly elegant.
In the glass, it opens with a lifted bouquet of citrus blossom, white peach, lime zest, and crushed herbs, layered with subtle notes of flint and wet stone. The palate is pure and finely chiselled, revealing flavours of grapefruit, green apple, and lemongrass, carried by a racy line of acidity and a precise, chalky texture. The finish is long, clean, and delicately saline, leaving an impression of finesse and clarity.
The Flores cuvée is sourced from younger vines planted on limestone-rich soils across several prized parcels around Bué. Fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in stainless steel to preserve purity, it reflects the house’s commitment to elegance, balance, and precision. While it is the most accessible wine in the Pinard lineup, Flores offers extraordinary depth and complexity, echoing the same meticulous viticulture and minimalist approach that defines the domaine’s grander cuvées.
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2015 Lune d’Or, Clos des Lunes
£4250Add to BasketLocated in Sauternes, on one of the greatest white wine terroirs in France, the Clos des Lunes is a magnificent rolling vineyard planted with old sémillon and sauvignon blanc vines. On very old vines, some perfectly golden clusters are chosen and delicately sorted grain by grain, by expert hands.
The wine is pale gold in the glass – which is rather apt considering the name! The nose is very expressive with fragrances of tangerine, lemon and grapefruit with wafts of fresh hay and chamomile. Together these aromas give a mouthwatering sensation. This leads into the racy palate that is complex, textural – preserved lemons, stone fruits and a delicious passion fruit taste. The finish is long luscious and minerally.
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2023 Sancerre Silex, J. de Villebois
£4250Add to BasketIn the glass Striking, aromatic notes of flint, blackcurrant and lemon lead to a mineral-rich palate. Beautifully balanced with a crisp, refreshing finish.
The Sauvignon Blanc grapes for the Silex cuvée are grown in the famous ‘Silex’ soils of Sancerre, which are made up of clay-siliceous soils composed of flint (Silex), clay and siliceous conglomerates. The sought-after Silex soils make up just 20% of the Sancerre appellation and are considered as ‘early-ripening soil’ as the flinty stones capture the heat from the sun during the day and radiate it at night, which helps to accelerate the maturity of the grapes. This is beneficial is such a cool, continental climate, where the Sauvignon Blanc retains its hallmark acidity, as it offers balance to the wines. The grapes for this cuvée come from hillside plots, where the vines are over 35 years old.
