Domaine Eric Louis 2023

Grape: Pinot Noir

Region: Loire Valley, France

Farming: Organic

It all began with Pauline, great-grand mother of Eric Louis, who in 1860 sold her first bottles at the local farmers markets. 4th generation of the Louis family, Eric is now following the deep-rooted tradition. The estate covers 33 acres of land divided in 3 villages Thauvenay, Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre and Vinon. These different locations offer to Eric a nice diversity of Terroir expression that offers to its wine a large pallet of expressions. Thauvenay is one of the three highest and steepest points of the appellation, with Saint Satur and Sancerre. Here the altitude reaches 1,160 feet revealing one of the major faults that created the region. Here you can find limestone bedrock known as “Caillotes” as well as kimmeridgian marl. In Thauvenay & Ménétréol the Siliceous rocks of flint deposit dominates and Vinon is characterized by a deep Portlandian limestone soil known as “Terres Blanches”.