Rose Wine: 2016 | Joseph Mellot | Sancerre Le Rabault Rose

Light, bright and packed with crisp fruit, this is a refreshing wine. Produced from Pinot Noir, it has red-cherry flavors along with a mineral texture and bright fruitiness.

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Producer: Joseph Mellot

Vintage: 2016

Size: 750ml

ABV: 12.5%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Loire Valley

Light, bright and packed with crisp fruit, this is a refreshing wine. Produced from Pinot Noir, it has red-cherry flavors along with a mineral texture and bright fruitiness.

Producer Information

Joseph Mellot is a wine producer based in the central Loire region of Sancerre boasting a portfolio of labels and domaines that covers the wider area, including Pouilly-Fum and Menetou-Salon. The estate was established by the eponymous Joseph Mellot in 1969, although the Mellot name in local winemaking can trace its history back to the 16th Century. Indeed, since 1513 (when Pierre-Etienne Mellot established his domaine) the Mellot family has become a leading winemaking dynasty in the Loire Valley. Csar Mellot even acted as a wine advisor to the Sun King, King Louis XIV, in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries. By the 1920s, Alphonse Mellot won several wine medals and became the first Sancerre winemaker to showcase his wines at the Foire de Paris, cementing the family’s winemaking reputation. Come 1969, however, an inheritance split between brothers Joseph and Edmond Mellot saw the establishment of two distinct estates (the latter becoming Alphonse Mellot – Domaine de la Moussire). Under the management of Catherine Corbeau Mellot, Joseph Mellot has gradually expanded from its original vineyards in Sancerre into appellations like Pouilly-Fum, Menetou-Salon, Quincy, Reuilly, Cteaux du Giennois and Bourgueil. Today, Joseph Mellot produces predominantly Sauvignon Blanc wines from 100 hectares (247 acres) of central Loire Valley vineyards.