Domaine B. Millet 'Le Chemin Blanc' Sancerre, Loire, France

Lime, green apple, white peach, and cool limestone minerality give this Sancerre a bright, energetic profile with a subtly rounded edge. Domaine B. Millet 'Le Chemin Blanc' Sancerre, Loire, France 2025 follows the excellent 2024 release with the same stainless-steel purity and unmistakable Bué character, but from an earlier, drier growing season that brought a little more fruit expression while preserving freshness. For customers who enjoyed the taut, mineral-driven 2024, the 2025 feels like a natural continuation of the Millet house style rather than a reinvention.

Product Details:

• Producer: Domaine B. Millet
• Owners: Franck and Betty Millet
• Winemaker: Franck Millet
• Vintage: 2025
• Grapes: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
• Vineyard Source: Terre Blanche
• Soil: Clay-limestone
• Farming: Vineyard work performed by hand with rigorous green harvesting during the growing season
• Harvest Method: Machine harvested
• Fermentation: Temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless steel
• Aging: Stainless steel
• ABV: 12.5%

Sensory Description:

The 2025 opens with lime, green apple, white peach, and subtle floral tones layered over a cool, stony mineral core. The palate is fresh and precise, with firm acidity providing shape while the naturally rounded texture associated with Bué keeps the wine from feeling austere. A faint gunflint note and chalky mineral character carry through the finish. Compared with the 2024 vintage, which showed a particularly taut, zesty profile shaped by a cooler and wetter season, the 2025 offers a touch more immediate fruit and generosity while retaining the freshness, tension, and long mineral finish that returning customers will recognize.

Producer’s Background:

Domaine B. Millet is a third-generation family estate based in Bué, one of Sancerre’s most respected villages for limestone-grown Sauvignon Blanc. Franck and Betty Millet took over the family domaine in 1991 and have expanded it from roughly seven hectares to more than twenty hectares across Sancerre, Menetou-Salon, and Pouilly-Fumé. Their white wines emphasize parcel expression, careful fruit selection, and stainless-steel vinification to preserve freshness and terroir. Le Chemin Blanc, meaning “The White Path,” takes its name from the pale limestone-rich soils surrounding Bué and is intended as a classic expression of the village’s aromatic, mineral style.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve at approximately 8 to 10 degrees Celsius in a medium-sized white wine glass. Its combination of citrus, mineral tension, and slightly rounded texture makes it an excellent match for oysters, shellfish, goat cheese, grilled or roasted fish, salmon, trout, sushi, asparagus, or simply as a precise and refreshing aperitif.