Loire Valley
Sancerre Rouge "Empreinte" - 2018 - Paul Fouassier
Domaine Fouassier
Nose carried by notes of candied fruit, spices and fern... Palate: ample, ripe, fleshy, melted tannins, balanced, big volume! A bottled that you will love to lay down in your cellar and pair in a few years with a beautiful dinner!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Sancerre
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2033
- rock’n’roll
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100% Pinot Noir cuvée from vines over 60 years old, grown biodynamically (certified since 2012) and planted on marl soils. Manual harvest. Natural vinification: cold pre-fermentary maceration of 8 days, five weeks of maceration with light punching down, soft pressing, 12 months of aging in large casks, half of them are new and the other half have seen one wine. Just a micro-dose of sulfur: total SO2 <12 mg/litre.

Paul Fouassier
Paul Fouassier, who earned his viticulture and oenology degree in 1998, worked in several leading Bordeaux châteaux (Pavie and Angelus among others) before returning to his large family estate in 2001. The estate holds 60 hectares, 50 ha of Sauvignon and 10 ha of Pinot, which he manages with his cousin Benoît. The duo represents the 10th generation, drawing the best from the rigour of Benoît...
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