Sapros is an organization which was founded to promote wine produced from nobly rotten grapes, without any help from added sugars. It may surprise many, but even the law governing such famous and respected botrytised dessert wine as Sauternes does not ban the addition of sugar before fermentation (ie chaptalization).
It may also surprise many to find not that all of the most famous (or top) estates say in Sauternes and Barsac are members of the organization, in fact very few of them are. Unfortunately the website is not working properly, so it is not easy to elucidate who are current members. Some notable members include Domaine Bongran (where Jean Thevenet occasionally makes a botrytised Chardonnay) and Chateau Guiraud.
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