Alphonse Mellot Sancerre Chavignol Satellite 2023 Lanson Rose Champagne including old parcels her father

including old parcels her father Jacques planted as far back as the 1920s

and full of character

anding with a satin finish

This is the 2023

the Rice-Spivak has a beautiful saline minerality with precise acid and fruit

Alphonse Mellot Sancerre Chavignol Satellite 2023 Lanson Rose Champagne including old parcels her fatherChavignol is the most celebrated village in Sancerre, all steep hillsides famous for both powerful white wine and pungent goat cheese, and 'Satellite' is Mellot's tribute to it. The name winks at Chavignol orbiting the town of Sancerre proper, but there's nothing minor about the wine: old vines across several hillside parcels, farmed biodynamically and raised in large, seasoned oak barrels. It's Sauvignon Blanc with weight and cut at once, mineral and