Gerard Boulay, Sancerre Comtesse, 2024 [Pre-Arrival ETA 7/10]
Comtesse is Boulay's rarity—a tiny old-vine cuvee drawn from his oldest vines, planted just after WWII at the foot of the famed Monts Damnes slope, right next door to Vatan's revered Clos la Neore. Here the Kimmeridgian marl runs deeper and richer, and the section catches more warmth, so this is the most powerful and textural of Boulay's single-vineyard Sancerres. Made in minuscule quantities from very low-yielding vines, it's fermented with native yeasts and raised in neutral barrels—no new oak, nothing to get between you and the site. If you want to know why Chavignol earns its reputation among France's great terroirs, this is the bottle. [Pre-Arrival]
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Comtesse is Boulay's rarity—a tiny old-vine cuvee drawn from his oldest vines, planted just after WWII at the foot of the famed Monts Damnes slope, right next door to Vatan's revered Clos la Neore. Here the Kimmeridgian marl runs deeper and richer, and the section catches more warmth, so this is the most powerful and textural of Boulay's single-vineyard Sancerres. Made in minuscule quantities from very low-yielding vines, it's fermented with native yeasts and raised in neutral barrels—no new oak, nothing to get between you and the site. If you want to know why Chavignol earns its reputation among France's great terroirs, this is the bottle. [Pre-Arrival]
