2015 Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Rouge Belle Dame

The 2015 Sancerre Belle Dame exhibits a ruby-garnet color along with an open, fruity and pretty matured nose with sweet toast, fruit, caramel and floral aromas as well as the delicate flinty background representing the terroir of flint-stoney soils. It is silky, finessed, warm and intense on the palate but always delicate and with fine tannins and a persistent structure. This is a ripe yet still vital, if not young Pinot that was possibly underrated in the beginning but now reveals its true class. The terroir is coolish, the vintage, however, is a warm one. This Belle Dame brings both together quite perfectly. The 2015 drinks perfectly today and will continue to do so over the next 5 years. Tasted in February 2021.