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Sancerre La Moussière Alphonse Mellot 2012

  • Red fruit
  • Gastronomic wine
  • Rising star
  • Color: Red
  • Biodynamics
  • 13% 
  • 2.25L
  • Intensity
  • Voluptuous

A delicious Sancerre: like biting into ripe red fruits. More info

  • Quantity: 3 Bottles
  • Level: 3 into-neck
  • Label: 3 very slightly damaged label
  • Origin: Trade
  • Recoverable VAT: Yes
  • Country/Region: Loire
  • Appellation/Wine: Sancerre
  • Producer/Owner: Alphonse Mellot
  • More information....

Sancerre La Moussière Alphonse Mellot serve at a temperature of 16°C. It will pair perfectly with the following dishes: Filet de boeuf rôti, Rôti de veau, Blanquette de veau.

  • Vintage score: 16/20
  • Lot presentation
    Sancerre La Moussière Alphonse Mellot

    The wine

    Sancerre Rouge La Moussière is a very fine example of Pinot Noir in the Loire Valley, like biting into a ripe fruit, a soft, fresh and vigorous wine that offers aromas of gooseberry, blackberry and raspberry with a vanilla and spicy touch.

    Information about domain Alphonse Mellot

    The Mellot family arrived in Sancerre in 1513 and since that time there have been eighteen generations producing wine from father to son - and all named Alphonse! As well as this extraordinary family background, it was of course the wines, both their whites and reds, which attracted our attention. These Sancerre wines bear no comparison with the rest of the appellation. Furthermore, these are the only Sancerre wines that bear the words ""hors concours"" (unrivalled). Alphonse Senior (the 18th Alphonse) has now made way for Alphonse Junior and his daughter Emmanuelle. For almost ten years, the two young winemakers have been asserting their approach. The way the vines are worked is quite simply exceptional: biodynamic, without any synthetic inputs and the plants are maintained by hand. Whenever asked to talk about their work, Alphonse and Emmanuelle like to quote from the French classic Le Petit Prince: “One only understands the things that one tames”. And indeed, vintage after vintage, the two brothers and sister continue to tame their terroirs. The wines are produced here with great craftsmanship, as if they were a work of art. One of the very finest Sancerre domaines - producing wines which have to be tried!

    Detailed characteristics

    • Quantity: 3 Bottles
    • Level: 3 into-neck
    • Label: 3 very slightly damaged label
    • Origin: Trade
    • Recoverable VAT: Yes
    • Original Wooden Case / Original Case: No
    • French customs seal: yes
    • Alcohol percentage: 13 %
    • Country/Region: Loire
    • Appellation/Wine: Sancerre
    • Producer/Owner: Alphonse Mellot
    • Vintage: 2012
    • Color: Red
    • Service temperature: 16°
    • Viticulture: Biodynamics 
    • Size (in ha): 5.5
    • Volume: 23000 bottles
    • Intensity: Voluptuous
    • Dominant aroma: Red fruit
    • Tasting occasion: Gastronomic wine
    • Grape variety: 100% Pinot noir

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    Sancerre La Moussière Alphonse Mellot 2012

    iDealwine Price(1) corresponds to the hammer price and the buyer's premium charged by the auctioneer. (1)Bottle format