Gerard Boulay Sancerre La Comtesse 2020 not on sale offering juicy red fruit

offering juicy red fruit

Brambly fruit on the nose draws you in before giving way to a moreish palate of raspberry

the bouquet setting the scene

Here there is a similar mouth feel to the Bonnes Mares with a bit more muscle in evidence on the overtly powerful yet velvety and imposingly-scaled flavours that exude a subtle minerality on the slightly firmer and just as impressively persistent finale

Gary Walsh

Gerard Boulay Sancerre La Comtesse 2020 not on sale offering juicy red fruitThe current release is tightly packed with vivid citrus, herbal tones, fennel, ginger spice and iodine, all pulsating around an intense core of earth and stone. Powerful but not remotely heavy, the palate combines the texture of the Monts Damnes with the mineral backbone of the La Cote. Its a head turning Sancerre of rare intensity and presence, reverberating with the salty, mineral essence of its pocket sized limestone terroirs. So intense, tensile,