Lucien Crochet Sancerre Rouge 'La Croix du Roy' 2019 Size:750ml and slightly more delicate than

and slightly more delicate than its predecessor

often wrote under the curious Anglophone pseudonym Clarendon

” this bottling tends to be the most open and immediately seductive of the three versions of Levet Côte-Rôtie

with a great interplay of supple fruit and intense stoniness

A minimal 25 mg/l dose of sulfur is applied only after malolactic fermentation

Lucien Crochet Sancerre Rouge 'La Croix du Roy' 2019 Size:750ml and slightly more delicate thanFrom grapes harvested from several parcels which include a mix of stones and marne with south southeast exposure. After a manual harvest, the grapes are pressed and the fermentation proceeds for approximately 30 days. Both remontage and pigeage are done but the degree to which they are practiced depends on the structure of each vintage. Sixty percent of this cuve is aged in barrel and 40% in stainless steel for one year. The wine is then assembled