Domaine du Carrou, Sancerre 'Chêne Marchand' 2021

Dominique Roger is one of the greatest winemakers in Sancerre. Dominique’s family has been making wine in the village of Bué for centuries, and his high-elevation vineyards are some of the best in the region. At Domaine du Carrou, he hard-harvests those organic plots to make precise, deeply textured wines that remind us of top-class Chablis.

Sancerre endured a barrage of terrible weather in 2021, and there’s not much wine to go around. The wines that did get made, however, are excellent. In other words, snag them while you can. This herbal, mineral-driven bottling comes from one of the most renowned vineyards in all of Sancerre.