Maison Foucher Sancerre Rouge Le Mont 2021 750ml

FRANCE : LOIRE VALLEY : SANCERRE

SUSTAINABLE : Pinot Noir

LIGHT-BODIED, RED CHERRY, CASSIS, BLUEBERRY, SPICE, HERBAL FINISH

Maison Foucher Lebrun is a third-generation négociant founded in 1921 in Aligny-Cosne, 30 kilometers northeast of Sancerre. The domaine is co-directed by Jacky Foucher and Jean Mounard — a former Fine and Rare wine merchant in Paris whose career was built around DRC, Mouton-Rothschild, and Leflaive — who joined in 2009 to develop small-batch wines from selected Loire Valley plots. Le Mont sources Pinot Noir from parcels in Sancerre, Chavignol, and d'Amigny, then ages it minimally to preserve the red fruit.

The 2021 was the year Sancerre producers invoked the old saying “année en 1, année de rien” — a year ending in one is a year of nothing — after brutal April frosts halved normal yields. Pinot Noir, already breaking bud, was the hardest hit. What made it through a wet summer and a fine October came out leaner and more mineral than warmer vintages: red cherry, cassis, and a cool herbal edge, held by slightly firm but integrated tannins.

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