100% Chenin Blanc. Pinon chooses vines from more clay-forward parcels for its annual sec bottling. They average 45 years old and have been certified organic since 2007. The bunches are harvested by hand, rigorously sorted and direct-pressed slowly and gently. The juice flows by gravity into...

100% Chenin Blanc. Silex noir is a rare black flint found almost exclusively in this tiny corner of Vouvray, the Vallée de Cousse. it lends its name to this bottling, one of Pinon's two demi-sec bottlings (other is "Trois Argiles"). "Silex Noir" comes mainly from 2 parcels totaling 3.7 hectares on...

100% Chenin Blanc. "Buvez du Bon Pinon" is a very special resurrection of a wine by Julien Pinon, starting in the 2020 vintage, in honor of the preceding generations of the family. His great grandfather Camille planted the vines for "Bon Pinon" in 1945 on silex noir or "black flint" soils unique to...

90% Chardonnay/10% Menu Pineau. Cazin dedicates 1 hectare of mainly Chardonnay, with a bit of co-planted Menu Pineau, to a tiny production of Crémant de Loire. These 30-year-old vines are planted on siliceous clay soils and farmed sustainably. The bunches are harvested by hand and pressed directly...

From 55-year-old vines. Aged in stainless steel for 10 months. Richer and with a greater intensity than the Sancerre Blanc.

From a thirty year-old parcel planted by Christian Lauverjat's father. The vineyard has a limestone and clay soil, with a lot of white stones throughout. It is just outside of the Sancerre appellation and is classifed as Vin de Pays. The wine is fermented and aged in stainless steel and spends...

Menetou-Salon's stoney soil gives a lot of minerality to the wine. Vines average 26-30 years-old. Fermented and aged in stainless steel. 2015 was the first vintage produced. Average production is 5,000 bottles per year.       

Located just across the Loire River from Sancerre, the soil here has river deposits and the Portlandian limestone joins the Kimmeridgian limestone. The flint is known to add smokey notes to the wine - fumé!

From 63-year-old Sauvignon Blanc vines planted on the famous flinted hills of Saint-Satur, on the eastern side of the Sancerre appellation. Vinified in temperature-regulated stainless steel tanks and aged for more than 6 months on the fine lees, with bâtonnage.

Martin's Pinot Noir vines are planted on the same hill as the Clos de Beaujeu vineyard, but the site is north facing. The vines were planted in the 1990's and like Beaujeu, the soil is very stoney limestone and bordered by forests. The 2022 was made two thirds in tank and one third in neutral...

1/3 each Sauvignon/Chardonnay/Fié Gris. Roughly translated as "little cold one", Frileuse is an apt name for this frost-prone, 3.8-hectare site at the top of the Tue-Boeuf estate. It is home to three varieties, including Fié Gris, the historical name for Sauvignon Gris, a Sauvignon variant with...

50% Pinot Noir/50% Gamay. Named Rouillon or "rusty" for the reddish tint of its clay-limestone soils, this 1.9-hectare estate vineyard is made up of two parcels, one of Pinot Noir planted in 1991 and one of Gamay planted in 1996.  The Puzelats farm it organically and harvest it by hand. As is...

100% Menu Pineau. Brin de Chèvre ("goat's hay") comes from two neighboring parcels, one planted in 1937 and the other in 1950; currently, those original old vines make up about 70% of the wine, with the rest from massale-selection replantings from over the last decade or two. The vines are planted...

Sauvignon Blanc with 10%  Sauv. Rose & Sauv. Gris rounding it out.  Direct press; spontaneous fermentation; malo; tank aging; no filtration.

Gamay of up to 60 years old planted on clay yields a structured, concentrated wine. Vinified & aged in tank, bottled unfiltered.