Alphonse Mellot Côtes De La Charité Pinot Noir 2021 (750ml) *

Pinot Noir grown in the Nièvre, just south of Sancerre, offers a cooler-climate take on the grape, and this bottling from Alphonse Mellot comes from that Côtes de la Charité zone rather than the Sauvignon Blanc country the house is better known for. The 2021 vintage is a lighter-framed red in the Burgundian mold, where Pinot Noir tends toward red fruit, fine tannin, and a savory edge rather than weight.