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Tasting notes
Philippe Girard's Silex Sancerre opens with enticing cool stone and earthy notes. The full palate is lively and expressive with pronounced minerality, a touch of gunsmoke and clean, citrus acidity. A final note of stone fruit is rounded off by a long, long finish.

Vineyard
Located along the banks of the River Loire, to the East of Bourges, the Sancerre vineyard stretches over 2,770 hectares. The Silex soil gave its name to the Cuvée.

Winemaking
Pneumatic pressing. After a must racking of 12 to 24 hours, the must is placed into a tank for temperature-controled fermentation. It is left to age on the lees in stainless steel vats for 4 months.

Background
Already at the time of the French Revolution in 1789, wine has been grown on the estate of Domaine Philippe Girard. Until the 1960s, however, the wine was consumed only by the family itself or allocated  to really good friends. This changed with Marius Girard. He began to bottle the wines, found customers and sold its Girard Sancerre with great success. The Domaine Philippe Girard is located in Verdigny, one of the most renowned wine village of Sancerre. Today's generation, owns 16 acres of Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir. The siblings know each parcel in their vineyard.