Domaine Lucien Crochet’s 2025 Sancerre Rosé is a dry, pale Pinot Noir rosé from Bué in the Sancerre appellation of France’s Upper Loire. Pinot Noir is the only red grape permitted in Sancerre, and the domaine’s plantings sit on the region’s limestone- and clay-limestone–influenced soils, including the well-known *caillottes* and *terres blanches*. The Crochet family has long focused on an authentic expression of site, and the estate is commonly described as organic-leaning in its day-to-day farming, though not positioned here as certified organic.

In the cellar, the rosé is made in a freshness-first style: Pinot Noir is “pressed immediately with gentle pneumatic presses” and fermented cool in tank, a white-wine approach intended to preserve delicate fruit and acidity. The domaine itself frames it as “a perfect summer wine,” and suggests straightforward pairings such as grilled prawns, white meats, and red-fruit desserts—choices that fit a rosé built more on lift and clarity than on weight.

Critically, the wine’s reception is excellent. Vinous awarded the 2025 a **93-point score**, with Eric Guido calling it “energetic” and praising its “solid core of chalky minerality and juicy acidity.” Guido highlights aromatic detail as well, writing that it “entices with a whiff of crushed stone and dried herbs,” bringing “white peaches with lemon zest” into focus. On the palate, he notes that it “beautifully complements its ripe orchard fruits,” and finishes with “a pinch of tension, mouthwatering and clean,” ending on “a hint of green apple.”

Taken together, the 2025 reads as a precise, mineral-driven Sancerre rosé with orchard-fruit ripeness kept in check by acidity and a clean, tapering finish—well-suited to warm-weather drinking and food that benefits from a brisk, chalk-edged frame.