Description
The 2023 Pascal Cotat Sancerre “Les Monts Damnés” opens with aromas of citrus peel, green apple, and white flowers, interlaced with chalky minerality. On the palate, it’s vibrant and complex, delivering a lush mouthfeel balanced by piercing acidity and a long, mineral-laden finish with hints of flinty smoke and grapefruit zest.
Cotat Sancerre is simply some of the most singular Sauvignon Blanc in the world. Like his cousin François, Pascal Cotat (with his winery in Sancerre) crafts uncanny wines that defy both time and definition. These are wines that can age for decades effortlessly, and that marry a plush richness with a laser-like cut and energy. Cotat as a rule harvests by hand and very late, as pushing ripeness to the extreme is one element that gives his wines their weighty texture and complexity. To wit, “They are some of the finest Sauvignon Blancs I have ever put to my lips,” says Robert Parker.
“Les Monts Damnés” is one of Sancerre’s most iconic vineyard sites, known for its steep slopes and chalky Kimmeridgian limestone soils that impart a distinct minerality to the wine. Pascal Cotat’s meticulous attention to low-intervention winemaking allows this terroir to be fully expressed, fermenting the wine with native yeasts and aging it on fine lees in neutral barrels. The 2023 vintage captures both the power and elegance of this unique vineyard, offering exceptional purity and intensity. Pascal Cotat’s few vines in this very steep vineyard are at the top of the slope, where soil are thin and vines feed directly into the chalky “mother rock.”Pressed (older, wooden vertical press) full cluster; fermented on indigenous yeasts in very old demi-muids. Aged in older tonneaux. Racked and bottled according to the lunar calendar. Bottled by hand, unfined and unfiltered.
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