La Louisonne is an exceptionally steep 1.5-hectare vineyard in the far north of Bué, with well-draining soils of distinctive blue clay riddled with pebbles, and with the limestone bedrock lurking very close to the surface. To best express this unique site’s character, Crochet employs a more oxygen-friendly aging process than with their super-sleek stainless-steel-raised classic trio, and this cuvée spends a lengthy 18 months in a combination of two-thirds terracotta amphora and one-third steel. La Louisonne, however, does not feel pointedly experimental; cut clearly from the same cloth as their classic trio, it offers a broader yet no less powerful sense of minerality, a more brazen salinity, and a texture at once enveloping and clinging. As with all their wines, this cuvée was farmed organically (the domaine has been practicing fully organic viticulture since 1989) and harvested manually—still an exceptionally rare practice in the Sancerre appellation.
La Louisonne is an exceptionally steep 1.5-hectare vineyard in the far north of Bué, with well-draining soils of distinctive blue clay riddled with pebbles, and with the limestone bedrock lurking very close to the surface. To best express this unique site’s character, Crochet employs a more oxygen-friendly aging process than with their super-sleek stainless-steel-raised classic trio, and this cuvée spends a lengthy 18 months in a combination of two-thirds terracotta amphora and one-third steel. La Louisonne, however, does not feel pointedly experimental; cut clearly from the same cloth as their classic trio, it offers a broader yet no less powerful sense of minerality, a more brazen salinity, and a texture at once enveloping and clinging. As with all their wines, this cuvée was farmed organically (the domaine has been practicing fully organic viticulture since 1989) and harvested manually—still an exceptionally rare practice in the Sancerre appellation.