Vincent Pinard Sancerre Nuance 2024 2024 Moët & Chandon’s *Nectar Impérial*

Moët & Chandon’s *Nectar Impérial* is one of the most beloved Demi-Sec Champagnes

this is an excellent successor to the much-lauded 2008

with hints of black tea

delivering refreshing acidity

fermented entirely whole-bunch and raised in a mix of big foudres

Vincent Pinard Sancerre Nuance 2024 2024 Moët & Chandon’s *Nectar Impérial*Bu is Sancerre's quality hot spot, and the Pinards the twentieth generation of their family to work vines in the village make its briskest wines. As vintages warm and much of Sancerre softens, these whites stay racy and crystalline: organic farming, hand harvesting, yields kept low for the appellation. Nuance draws on two well regarded Bu parcels, Chteau and Petit Chemarin, on the pebbly Oxfordian limestone locals call caillottes; roughly two thirds