Bailly Reverdy 2023 Sancerre Blanc "Les Monts Damnes" 750ml

Based at Bué, the family works 22 hectares across Sancerre, five of them in Chavignol, including a single hectare on Les Monts Damnés. The slope is Sancerre's most celebrated, so steep it was reputedly damned to work, on Kimmeridgian marl and terres blanches chalky clay that gives the wine structure and salinity. Hand-picked and sorted, gently pneumatic-pressed, cold-settled, then twelve months in 228- and 500-litre barrels, mostly one-year-old so the oak frames rather than flavours. Pale yellow with green glints; lemon, grapefruit, apricot and pear over subtle toast and spice. Round, mineral, long. Cellar 4 to 10 years.

Pairing: seared scallops, poultry in cream, river fish, Crottin de Chavignol.