"If you want to know what true Sancerre tastes like, try one of his single-vineyard bottlings. It does not come any better."
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| "I don't know of any other Sancerres that have so much soul and energy, so much tension and expression."
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate |
| “Gérard Boulay is a very humble, quiet man in his early 60s who four years ago moved his cellar out of the village of Chavignol in order to have more space to handle the crop from his 12 hectares of vines. With four workers assisting him in the vineyards, he has done an excellent job over the past couple of years to delineate the style of each of his sites. All are harvested by hand and fermented with wild yeasts in 300-liter oak barrels, but you never taste the wood as you often do in the wines of his colleagues. Given the steep slopes, he seldom has problems with botrytis …. Given the crystalline purity of his Sauvignon Blancs, he has become one of my favorite producers of the central Loire. If you want to know what true Sancerre tastes like, try one of his single-vineyard bottlings. It does not come any better.”
Joel B. Payne, Vinous |
| | | “The Boulay family’s version of La Côte was first bottled in the 2010 vintage, as Gérard was able to both buy a parcel of vines here in this famous vineyard in Amigny and rent another small plot, so that today the family has around fifty-five ares of vines to work with in this great terroir. However, as the parcel that the Domaine purchased has just been planted (the vines were en friche when purchased and are only four years old right now and not yet used in the La Côte bottling), this is currently the very smallest of the four Cru bottlings from the Boulay family …. As Gérard Boulay mentioned regarding their bottling of La Côte, 'we did not call our bottling La Grande Côte out of respect to the Cotat family,' as they are really the ones who made this vineyard famous, and La Grande Côte is really a name that they created for their bottling. As I noted in the historical section of this piece, the La Côte vineyard lies on the same Kimmeridgian hillside as Monts Damnés and Clos de Beaujeu, but further to the southwest of these two vineyards and over the border in the village of Amigny. On many maps of the vineyards in the region, the name of the vineyard is printed as La Côte d’Amigny. With its due south exposition, this is another fairly warm microclimate …. As is the case with the Monts Damnés, I only have a recent note on the 2015 Domaine Boulay La Côte bottling, but have liked each and every example I have tasted since the debut vintage of 2010.”
John Gilman, View From The Cellar
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