Gerard Boulay, Sancerre Monts Damnes, 2024 so011725 jura offer Expect florals

Expect florals

matured 18 months in 60% new French oak

Outward's Ryan Pace and Natalie Siddique pick early

A weeknight ringer that can hold its own at a serious table

The altitude keeps everything fresh and lifted

Gerard Boulay, Sancerre Monts Damnes, 2024 so011725 jura offer Expect floralsMonts Damnesthe "damned mountains"earned its name from a slope so brutally steep that farming it feels like a curse, and it's the benchmark site of Chavignol, source of some of Sancerre's most sought after wines. Boulay has worked this south facing Kimmeridgian marl since 1982, and the warm exposure ripens the fruit fully while the marine fossil soils keep everything vibrant and mineral. Farmed organically and vinified with native yeasts in neutral