Domaine Daniel Chotard Sancerre 2024 campaign-feature in Piedmont — which makes

in Piedmont — which makes finding it in the Sacramento Delta a small act of geographic mischief

The 2020 is Grenache-led

Aromas of cream

lightness and an essence of spring

pair that with the great 2012 harvest and you get a wine that is both vivid and unhurried

Domaine Daniel Chotard Sancerre 2024 campaign-feature in Piedmont — which makesDaniel Chotard was a teacher and a musician, and a distinctly reluctant heir to his family's vines in Crezancy en Sancerre, until the work got hold of him and he passed the obsession on to his son Simon, who runs the place today. Simon farms sustainably and feeds the vines with organic compost, but the decision that really defines this wine is when he picks: consistently later than his neighbors. That later harvest, plus time on the lees, gives a