90pts Vinous

The 2025 Sancerre Blanc marks a return to form after a challenging 2024 vintage. The nose is gently spiced with ripe fruit and a hint of white pepper. While light-bodied, it offers charm, roundness and ripeness, with fresh elderflower and nettle flavours as well as sinewy line and length. A classic Sancerre with extra power, this will drink well from release.

Tasting Notes

Pair with salads with Loire Valley regional goat cheese; oysters or other fresh shellfish.

Winery Notes

Regarded as one of Sancerre’s greatest estates and the first to be certified biodynamic, cousins Jean-Dominique and Jean-Laurent Vacheron, Domaine Vacheron produces consistently delicious and structured wines from flinty soils. Fruit is organic, hand-harvested, and fermented naturally with indigenous yeasts, leading to wines that show a serious sense of place. The cousins have become a benchmark for earth-driven Sauvignon Blanc worldwide. 

The Vacherons without question are Sancerre’s leading winemaking clan. From the family’s pioneering work in identifying and exploring the region’s top terroirs to their leading position in biodynamic viticulture, there are few if any artisans today in Sancerre as exacting or as respected.

The estate’s peerless older vines, planted and cultivated by generations of family members, are cared for fastidiously. Yet it is the their singlevineyard wines—terroir-based selections recalling the painstaking work of Burgundian monks in the Côte d’Or—that have shown the world the heights and complexity that Sancerre can reach.

Organic

Biodynamic