2022 Langlois-Chateau Sancerre 750 ml

The legendary Champagne house Bollinger has made their reputation on quality. They’ll age base wines longer than most of their peers, and are famed for their attention to detail. For them, winemaking is about the results in the bottle, not the costs it takes to get there.

That’s why Bollinger seems to be conspicuously absent from the international projects that many other famous Champagne houses are involved in. There’s no glitzy Bollinger Napa, no Argentine bubbles, and no cash-grab in China. 

But the exception that proves the rule is the outstanding wines that Bollinger has made in the Loire since the 1970s under the Langlois-Chateau label. Their 2022 Langlois-Chateau Sancerre combines their impressive winemaking expertise, eye for detail, and skill in the vineyard—and presents it all in a package that is primed to pour on a weeknight. 

Langlois-Chateau has a storied past that dates back to 1912, when Edouard Langlois and Jeanne Chateau founded the winery. It eventually became a Loire Valley standard-bearer, and in 1973, the Bollinger family joined as investors, revitalizing and modernizing the vineyards and cellar. Since then, they’ve quietly produced bottles that wow lovers of mineral-drenched, electric white wine—and that very much includes our members, who’ve given the wines rave reviews. 

The 2022 vintage was a warm and solar one, with growers enjoying a summer that provided all the ripeness they could want—a dream for any farmers who had been making wine since the 70s or 80s. The Bollinger team harvested this fruit at a perfect inflection point between richness on the palate and textbook electricity and minerality.