Domaine Chatelain Dom Chatelain Select Sancerre

Since then, our family works the soil of Pouilly sur Loire day after day.300 years later, André Chatelain offered his wine abroad and built the foundation of our international reputation. The 12th generation now runs the Chatelain area of 30 hectares of vines, in Pouilly fumé AOC, spread over 6 towns of the 7 in the designation.Tracy-sur-Loire – Pouilly-sur-Loire – Mesves-sur-Loire – Saint-Andelain – Saint-Laurent l’Abbaye – Saint-Martin-sur-NohainThis particular geography made of plots offers a good overview of all the lands composing the « AOC ».A lot of creative freedom and meticulous selection of blends allow us to propose a well worked, balanced and very distinctive wine.There are today, in the vintages of the Chatelain domain, all the knowledge and work of a wine-maker. But it is also, the legacy from generations to generations of the love for winemaking.The SoilBarrois limestonesSedimentary limestone formed of a large amount of white pebbles (caillottes) in soil containing more or less clay. These soils are porous and of rapid warming, generally allowing an early maturi-ty of the grapes. These soils are often dry and poor requiring daily work of their structure.Flinty Clay.It is made of white brown clay,and flint pebbles in its mass, covering the limestone plateaus of St. Andelain mounds, St. Laurent Abbey and Tracy-sur-Loire. A difficult soil to exploit because of its structure. It produces structured wines, firms, with a very developed mineral taste of flint.Kimmeridgian marlsIt covers most of the Pouilly vineyards, composed whether of clayey limestone and limestone rocks and sometimes fossils in different situations. The soils are generally slower to warm in the spring and require regular unpackings. It provides fruity and long length in the mouth.