Domaine du Carrou White

description

Our classic Sancerre white and the mainstay of the domain’s production in white.

grape variety

Sauvignon blanc

soil type

Soil types: An expressive assembly of the four renowned “terroirs” of the Sancerre region, sourced from 13 individual plots representative of our domain.

• 30 % on “Griottes” – soft limestone from the late Jurassic Oxfordian (150 million years old) – giving fruit and lightness
• 34 % on “Caillottes” – hard limestone from the late Jurassic Oxfordian (145 million years old) – bringing fruit, structure, finesse and chalky minerality
• 21 % on “Terres blanches” – clay-limestone from the late Jurassic Kimmeridgian (140 million years old) – adding complexity, opulence, richness and salinity
• 15 % on “silex” – flint-rich limestone from the late Jurassic (40 million years old) – adding well-delineated firmness and a flinty minerality.