The Great Return of Fanny Sabre!
10/14/2024
I am really excited today to bring to you an incredible lineup of wines from Fanny Sabre, and with some quantity too! Fanny's wines are precise, elegant, and showcase at the highest level what natural winemaking can truly be in Burgundy.
In preparation for beginning my role at Chambers Street Wines, I spent some time creating a list of winemakers I believed aligned really well with Chambers Street’s vision and ethos, wines I was excited to bring to the shelves and highlight here. Towards the top of that list was Fanny Sabre. I am proud to have poured her wines by the glass at different restaurants, included them on numerous wine lists, and I have bought some for my own collection over the years. I was incredibly happy to find out that her wines have a deep history here at the store. Back in the early 2010’s the team was working directly with her wines in New York, colleagues of mine have visited her in Burgundy and she has even visited the shop to do tastings. Although it has been quite a few years since the shop has been able to bring in Fanny’s wines, today that changes! There is a lot of excitement from the whole team here about having her wines back on the shelves at Chambers Street Wines. Today we offer you a range of Fanny Sabre whites and reds, starting with Bourgogne and moving into village level and even a back vintage Premier Cru magnum!
From tasting Fanny’s wines you would never think that winemaking wasn’t her initial path in life. She was studying law at university when her father passed away and she went back to Pommard to begin running the family estate. It wasn’t until this time that she realized she quite enjoyed winemaking. When first starting out in 2005, Fanny enlisted the help of Philippe Pacalet who is a big pioneer for natural wine making in Burgundy. When Philippe stepped away to continue working on his own projects, Fanny then in her mid-20s, truly embraced the natural wine methods. Over the past almost 20 years, Fanny has continued to farm organically, gaining certification in 2018. The wines here are made on a small scale, Fanny’s 7 hectares of vines are monitored closely and there is immense attention to detail when it comes to work in the cellar. These careful steps show through in the wines creating rich, structured whites and ethereal reds all full of energy both at the regional level as well as village and above. -Hanna Krilov
