Jean-Max Roger Menetou-Salon Morogues Le Petit Clos Blanc 2022

Very pale yellow in colour with green highlights, this is a textured, well-driven and delicious Menetou-Salon Blanc with a highly expressive nose reminiscent of herbs such as fennel, lemon verbena and wormwood, along with more floral notes like hawthorn blossom and fruit notes of apples and pear skins. The palate is zesty and lively, medium-bodied with fresh acidity, boasting tanginess and flavours of candied lemon, lychee and fresh rose. The long, succulent finish is classically bright of Sauvignon Blanc, featuring notes of green peppercorns.

The Roger family comes from a long line of winegrowers from the village of Bué. The first texts that mention the family name date back to the early 17th century. Jean-Max Roger took over the four hectares of vines left to him by his parents in the early 1970s and expanded the estate to its current size, 26 hectares. In 2004, two of his three sons, Etienne and Thibault, came back to work at the estate after various professional experiences in France and abroad. Today, the estate covers 26 hectares in the Sancerre AOC, along the Loire River, and also includes five hectares of vines in the Menetou-Salon AOC area of production where the first plantations date back to 1981.