2023 Claude Riffault, Sancerre, Les Boucauds Price_30_Under The extended maceration is how

The extended maceration is how Parra coaxes structure and tension from a grape that most winemakers treat as light and easy

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The vineyards here sit on compact clay and limestone soils that tend to give the wines a little more structure and depth than Dolcetto grown elsewhere in the region

This careful physiological development

2023 Claude Riffault, Sancerre, Les Boucauds Price_30_Under The extended maceration is howClaude Riffault has gone from rising star to one of the established leaders of his appellation. The wines are beautifully textured and ride a fine line between richness and verve. Like the best wines from the village of Bu, this shows you can make truly special wine from Oxfordian limestone, which is normally associated with easy drinking Sancerre. But while complex and cellar worthy, it also gives instantaneous pleasure. Flint, smoke, citrus, gray