Gérard Boulay

98 Sancerre AC 2008
Gerard Boulay

Grape:100% Sauvignon (12.5% alc.)

This comes from 35 year old vines on the hills of Chavignol. Cuve aged and a lovely, bright pale colour with greeny glints, on the nose it offers pure, restrained sauvignon, with an evident salty character and hint of iodine which follows through on the palate with a touch of lemon, fennel and blackcurrant leaf. For drinking now to 2012.

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99 Sancerre AC 2008 Monts Damnés
Gerard Boulay

Grape:100% Sauvignon (13% alc.)

This outstanding wine comes from 40 year old vines located on the central, finest plot of this famous hillside. Partly vinified in cuve and partly in three to four year old barrels (good Troncais oak) it was bottled in May 2008. Restrained on the nose, it has much more evident weight on the attack, then becomes really quite racy with salty, iodiney notes on the finish. For drinking now to 2015.

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100 Sancerre AC 2008 Clos de Beaujeu
Gérard Boulay

Grape:100% Sauvignon (13% alc.)

This comes from 30 to 60 year old vines that were until recently in the ownership of Bourges Cathedral for 500 years! The vineyard is very steep and south-east facing helping to give the wine a little more backbone and nerve than Monts Damnés. Vinified and aged along similar lines to the above it will age magnificently. For drinking now to 2017.

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101 Sancerre AC 2008 Comtesse
Gérard Boulay

Grape:100% Sauvignon (13% alc.)

This comes from 0.40 hectares of 65 yearold vines on a prime slope in the heart of Monts Damnés. As long ago as 1870 Comtesse was considered the finest vineyard in Sancerre, and rented to him back in 2004 by a retiring vigneron, this is Boulay’s pride and joy. The vines are now attuned to his touch, and offer a wine with more intensity of fruit than Monts Damnés but still with an excellent backbone. For drinking now to 2017.

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102 Sancerre Rosé AC 2009
Gérard Boulay

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (12.5% alc.)

Is there a better rosé than this anywhere in France? 100% pinot noir from old vines gives this supremely elegant wine with fine fruit, saline minerality and a sustained finish.

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103 Sancerre Rouge AC 2008
Gérard Boulay

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (13% alc.)

50 year old vines, natural yeasts, no fining, no filtration, sensitive ageing in new to six year old barrels make this stylish and elegant – more than a match for many red burgundies. For drinking now to 2013.

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