Claude Riffault Sancerre Les Chailloux 2022

Claude Riffault Sancerre Les Chailloux 2022

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We wanted to meet Stéphane Riffault so much that we made an entire trip to taste his electrifying wines with him at a Biodyvin fair in Paris. The reason is simple: Stéphane is now one of the best winemakers in Sancerre and the Loire, a biodynamic expert who takes risks in the cellar to enhance the different exposures and plots of Kimmeridgian marl (Boucauds), limestone (Chasseignes) and flint (Chailloux), whether in concrete or in truncated-conical wooden barrels, with the same drama and precision.

Special Note: Vinous 93-95
"It is firm and focused with a strict structure, backbone of acidity
and flinty power that guns through the wine from start to finish."

BiodyVin certified biodynamic

*A geological fault that runs alongside the beautiful medieval town of Sancerre, parallel to the Loire River, contains more recent Tertiary deposits with the presence of flint (a very hard sedimentary rock found in chalk or limestone), sand, clay, limestone and gravel. Flint wines are extremely austere, with the classic smoky aromas of rubbed flint, so compressed in texture that the fruit is almost absent, marked by an uncompromising acidity and minerality.


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