Alphonse Mellot Sancerre Generation XIX, Loire, France 2019 Portelli Wine Silky and taut on the

Silky and taut on the palate

and five garden-like parcels – a wine with ferocious concentration yet fresh-as-a-daisy acidity

with a nice breadth that unfolds in an aromatic palette in which we find the aromas of the nose

The nose is intense and complex with notes of fresh red fruit and blackberries

Alphonse Mellot Sancerre Generation XIX, Loire, France 2019 Portelli Wine Silky and taut on theThe 2019 Sancerre Gnration Dix Neuf (XIX) is deep, complex and subtle on the nose that reveals flinty as well as yeasty and delicate phenolic notes intertwined with perfectly ripe and elegant stone fruit aromas such as mangos. Fresh, round and very elegant on the palate, this is a medium to full bodied, minerally tensioned and elegantly textured Sancerre with fine tannins and an intense and saline finish. The only problem I have: the wine is already