August 03, 2020
It began early on a Saturday in June. I’m minded to say that it disturbed my lie-in however it was means sooner than that that my cellphone first pinged to announce the arrival of a brand new web site order. (I ponder if Jeff Bezos has the identical app on his cellphone?). Ignored it, rolled over and 5 minutes later it went once more. And once more. And and so forth, and so forth. Lastly, earlier than switching the factor off, curiosity bought the higher of me and I opened up the net store to discover a stream of orders for a wine that I fell in love with 2 years in the past however that we had did not make a lot headway with – Coteaux du Giennois, Terre de Silex from Clement & Florian Berthier, an excellent Sauvignon Blanc that simply oozes class with a discreet richness and weight and a magical minerality on the end.
Ultimately we traced the perpetrator to be a Monetary Occasions (viewable totally free right here) column from Jancis Robinson MW through which she writes:
“The warming local weather is altering which locations are capable of make severely superb wine. I used to be despatched the present releases from Clément et Florian Berthier within the Higher Loire lately. They included a spread of wines from the well-known appellation Sancerre, in addition to different terroir-specific bottlings from the a lot much less well-known Coteaux du Giennois to the north of Sancerre.
For a few years, the grapes within the Coteaux du Giennois struggled to ripen and the wines have had appellation contrôlée standing solely since 1998, but when these Berthier wines are something to go by, in a warming local weather, the common-or-garden Coteaux du Giennois is best positioned to provide well-balanced, refreshing wines than well-known Sancerre, whose Sauvignon Blancs could also be in peril of being a bit too ripe to refresh.”
Provided that that is the conclusion to a chunk charting the rise of wines corresponding to Le Pin and Sassicaia, it’s no shock that our modest inventory ranges disappeared in a matter of a few hours.
Extra has now arrived and priced as follows:
Single bottle £20.49
6 bottles £19.45 per bottle
12 bottles £18.45 per bottle
