One grape, one village. The appellation of Cour-Cheverny exists for a single purpose: to house Romorantin, the Burgundian vine François Ier had brought to the Loire in 1519, the year he began Chambord. The grape took the name of the town it was planted near, never spread, and never left — five centuries later this small district in the shadow of the great château is the only place on earth that grows it as its own.
The wine repays the loyalty. Beeswax, quince, lanolin and chalk over an acidity that lets good bottles age twenty years, it is the rarest appellation of the royal Loire — a king's whim preserved as a living wine.