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Monts-Damnés (pronounced mon-dannay) is perhaps the best-known vineyard in Chavignol. Drinking some great juice from this site leaves you in little doubt that Chavignol is home to some of the most textural, mineral, uplifting and sublime Sancerre’s. Boulay’s bottling comes from 45-year-old vines on one of the steepest inclines of this majestic vineyard; a 40° south-facing plot on terres blanches soil (white, chalky clay and limestone), directly adjacent to Edmond Vatan’s Clos la Néore vineyard. It’s a parcel of vines that gifts a wine of great hedonism and complexity. This was vinified in three- to four-year-old Rousseau Tronçais oak casks, before finishing its aging in large cask prior to bottling.
While the steeply sloped, south-facing Mont Damnés is one of Chavignol’s warmest sites, this superb and seductive wine walks the perfect tightrope between being ripe and textured on the palate, but still maintaining that invigorating tension that makes these Sancerre’s so compelling.