Thierry Merlin-Cherrier has watched over this fourteen-hectare estate for five decades, farming premium sites in and around the commune of Bue in Sancerre. The holding includes a slice of the revered Garennes plot. Bue sits on the caillottes, the stony limestone soils that give Sancerre its precision and its salinity. Merlin-Cherrier is one of the names insiders reach for.