{"id":9335,"date":"2014-02-27T18:43:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T18:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=9335"},"modified":"2014-02-27T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T18:43:30","slug":"two-lovely-sancerres-from-jolivet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/sauvignon-blanc\/two-lovely-sancerres-from-jolivet","title":{"rendered":"Two lovely Sancerres from Jolivet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pascaljolivetsancerre.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pascaljolivetsancerre.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pascaljolivetsancerre-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pascaljolivetsancerre-400x268.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\nSauvignon Blanc <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> a boring grape. It is capable of greatness. Here are two lovely Loire Sauvignons from <strong>Pascal Jolivet<\/strong>. Jolivet has 70 acres in Sancerre and Pouilly Fume, and also buy in grapes (about half their production needs). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Jolivet Sancerre Les Caillottes 2012 Loire, France<br \/>\n<\/strong>13.5% alcohol. From an 8.65 acre parcel with 40 year old vines on limestone, hand harvested and fermented with wild yeasts. Lovely grapefruit, tangerine and melon nose. Fresh, aromatic and quite fine. The palate is ripe but retains freshness with a fruity personality and fine tangerine and herb notes. Precise mineral framing to the fruit. 92\/100 <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sauvages_jolivet.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sauvages_jolivet.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sauvages_jolivet-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sauvages_jolivet-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Jolivet Sancerre Sauvage 2012 Loire, France<br \/>\n<\/strong>13% alcohol. Organic grapes, wild ferment, 12 months on lees, no filtration. Richly textured with some chalky, pithy minerality and nice freshness. Sweet oear and peach notes, but also citrus and minerals too. Combines concentration and finesse to create a broad, complex wine showing nice purity and precision. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p>UK agent: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmdltd.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">MMD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find these wines with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauvignon Blanc isn&#8217;t a boring grape. It is capable of greatness. Here are two lovely Loire Sauvignons from Pascal Jolivet. Jolivet has 70 acres in Sancerre and Pouilly Fume, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,16],"tags":[386,413,355],"class_list":["post-9335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loire","category-sauvignon-blanc","tag-loire","tag-sancerre","tag-sauvignon-blanc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9339,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions\/9339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}