Lucien Crochet

The ebullient Gilles Crochet, son of Lucien, looked after winemaking duties at this Estate until his sad and all too premature death early in 2023. Gilles is succeeded by his wife Laurence who has taken the reins and begun proudly building on Gilles’ great legacy. The winery is ultra modern, fitted out with the very latest temperature controlled fermentation vessels. The emphasis is on creating wines of finesse and complexity that are faithful to terroir and vintage. The vineyards are located around the towns of Bué, Sancerre and Crézancy, the finest of which is the south-facing limestone-based Chêne Marchand vineyard. The wines are made as naturally as possible using indigenous yeasts and through hand picking, careful selection of the grapes and long, slow ageing sur lie to produce taut, sophisticated and age-worthy Sancerre.