Gourmet products local specialties and wines Sury-En-Vaux

Sancerre is renowned for its quality wines, and Domaine Matthias & Emile Roblin is a must-visit winery. Located in Maimbray, Sury-en-Vaux, the domaine offers tours of its cellars and tastings of its various Sancerre vintages. The estate also has a family-run gîte nearby, allowing visitors to stay in the region and discover the Sancerre area. To complete the experience, we recommend a visit to the Maison des Sancerre, where you can learn about Sancerre wines in a fun and educational way.

Located in Maimbray, in the commune of Sury-en-Vaux, 7 km northwest of Sancerre, Domaine Michel Vattan is a family business that has been in existence for three generations. With 9.10 hectares of vines, the estate offers two main types of terroir typical of the Maimbray hillsides: "Caillottes" and "Terres Blanches". The grape varieties grown are Sauvignon (7.8 hectares) and Pinot Noir (1.3 hectares). The estate applies environmentally-friendly practices, such as yield control, grass cover, no insecticides and no tillage. The estate's different cuvées, notably the white Sancerre cuvée Calcaire, cuvée Argile, cuvée L-O, as well as the red and rosé Sancerre, are recognized by the national and international press.

For more than three centuries and ten generations, members of the same winegrower family have been living on this estate a few kilometres from Sancerre. On a clayey-limestone and well exposed soil, the estate extends over three appellations: sancerre, Pouilly-fumé and Coteaux-du-Giennois, which the winegrowers will show you in a free and very welcoming way. A moderate tasting is also offered free of charge. And finally, several cottages are available for rent to spend several days in this exceptional setting.

In Les Egrots, a small hamlet in the commune of Sury-en-Vaux, 4 kilometres from Sancerre, Michel and Laurent Thomas run a 17-hectare estate of white (12 hectares), red and rosé (5 hectares in pinot noir) AOC sancerre vines. In the Thomas family, vines are a tradition and passion has passed from father to son. The production is harvested and vinified by them at the estate. The vineyard is planted on several types of soils: pebbles, limestone and stony soils giving fine and fruity wines, very pleasant to drink young, white soils, clay-limestone soils giving full-bodied wines and longer ageing, flint, very hard siliceous sedimentary rocks, giving smoky aromas, a very mineral flavor that develops after a few years.