2019 Angel Falls Sancerre 750 ml

David Choi isn’t a winemaker, but he makes some of the most exciting wines we’ve tasted in recent memory.

Backed by a huge online following of enophiles, Choi forms partnerships with top winemakers and growers on both sides of the Atlantic, authoring limited-production releases that sell out in weeks. Past collaborators have included powerhouse California talents like Pete Stolpman of Stolpman Vineyards, Sashi Moorman of Domaine de la Côte, and 100-point winemaker Peter Heitz of Turnbull.

For this 2019 Sancerre, Choi headed straight to the top of the Loire Valley hierarchy by partnering with Domaine Fournier—one of the most respected producers in the region and one that’s made multiple appearances on Wine & Spirits’ Top 100 Wineries list.

This bottling hails from vines 30 to 35 years in age, drawn off Fournier parcels hand-selected by Choi. Fournier’s holdings span some of the region’s most famous villages—Verdigny, Sancerre, Sury-en-Vaux, Bué—and Choi and 10th-generation winemaker Claude Fournier drew grapes from some of the domaine’s prime plots to achieve a wine of stunning balance and complexity.

Though Angel Falls may sound more like a new West Coast wine label than one that contains juice from a blue-blooded, old-school Loire Valley estate, their wildly expressive, 150-case 2019 Sancerre is the result of traditions from both sides of the Atlantic. It’s an impeccable marriage of zingy New World style and coveted Old World terroir.

Vinified in stainless-steel tanks, this 2019 combines tremendous acidic verve with beeswax lusciousness. It’s the coolest thing we’ve tasted from Sancerre in a while—and it won’t be around long.