Alphonse Mellot Sancerre La Moussiere 2024 CS20230804 White-fleshed stone fruits

White-fleshed stone fruits

and impossibly elegant—this is Volnay at its most seductive

The house produces only six cuvées

and you feel it here as concentration without any added weight

demonstrates a great elegance for a unique tasting experience

Alphonse Mellot Sancerre La Moussiere 2024 CS20230804 White-fleshed stone fruitsLa Moussiere is the beating heart of the Mellot estate, a single 34 hectare sweep of limestone hillside that the family farms as its flagship, biodynamically, generation after nineteenth generation. This is the wine that makes the case for Sancerre as one of the great white terroirs of France. All Sauvignon Blanc, rested on its lees and raised across wood, concrete, and steel, it's fresh and finely cut, with citrus, a green herbal snap, and that