2017 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Les Romains

The 2017 Sancerre Les Romains delivers a potpourri of herbal notes to the nose and indicates a deep and coolish terroir with silex-clay soils that give this wine distinctive purity and coolish flintiness but also ripe fruit intensity that is reminiscent of yellow rather than white or greenish fruits. The palate is clear, crisp and greenish, with notes of gooseberry and grapefruit as well as lime and black cassis. The wine is lean and finessed but intense and almost rich and develops a sustainable, stimulatingly salty, grippy and aromatic finish with passion fruit and green gooseberry aromas. An excellent, mouth-filling Les Romains with stimulating salinity. Tasted in February 2021.