2025 Ladoucette Comte Lafond Sancerre Blanc

The Ladoucette Comte Lafond Sancerre Blanc is a delight and embodies everything you expect from a Sancerre! With a beautiful light golden color, this wine is complex, rich, lively, and elegant. On the nose, you discover citrus fruits, summer fruits, honey notes, and blossom. The taste is fruity, with exotic fruit in delicate harmony with almond and pear. The finish is mineral and long, with notes of very ripe lemon.

Comte Lafond is the ancestor of Baron Patrick de Ladoucette and was the first to purchase vineyards in the Loire in the 18th century. Comte Lafond had enormous ambition for wine expansion and originally came from Burgundy, but soon bought vineyards in Sancerre. Baron Patrick de Ladoucette has continued this passion and these developments.

The vines are 25 to 35 years old, and the subsoil consists of a combination of clay, limestone, and silica. From the harvest to the vinification process, no machines, and not even pumps, are used. The estate is designed for the use of gravity. The plots are all vinified separately. After fermentation in stainless steel tanks, the wine rests on the lees for 3 to 6 months. The wine deliberately undergoes no wood aging to preserve the pure and natural character of the wine.