Daniel Reverdy et Fils Sancerre Le Clos de Chaudenay 2023

They say that if you throw a rock into a crowd in Sancerre, odds are you’ll hit a Reverdy. That family name and all the hyphens associated with it runs deep all over the eastern Loire Valley. Daniel started working the family domaine in 1979 alongside his father with just 2 hectares of vines.

In 2000, his son, Cyrille, came home after five years studying winemaking at the Lycée Viticole in Beaune – one of the most prestigious wine schools in all of France -and everything changed. Together they built a proper cave and winery, expanded to 9 hectares, and started bottling their own wine under the Daniel Reverdy et Fils label. From selling juice to a négociant to pouring at Per Se. That’s one heck of a journey.