Domaine Andre Pigeat Quincy 2013

This is tremendous juice. This is one of the best kept secrets of the Loire. Quincy is a gem of an appellation sitting beside the Loire tributary that is the River Cher. To the East lies Sancerre, a town with a long-established presence on wine lists; to the West are the vineyards of the Touraine. Quincy itself is a small, trim village between Vierzon and Bourges; a handful of vignerons produce a fresh and fruity white exclusively from the Sauvignon grape. Philippe Pigeat is one of the best of those, a reliable vigneron whose wine is excellent year-after-year. Ripe fruit and spices play together on the nose; the palate is full and exotic, long and balanced, producing a wine that is perfect with rich goat’s cheese or with a Mediterranean or river fish