Wine Advocate: 94 Points Tasted in early March, the 2019 Sancerre La Côte des Monts Damnés offers a highly attractive bouquet of just-ripe plums, apricots, mango, passion fruit, elderflower, spicy/herbal and spring-like leafy...
Vinous Media 90 Points: On the nose, lots of honeysuckle, white pepper and understated orchard fruit. Fleshy peach and apricot on the palate, with attractive underlying saltiness throughout. Friendly, open and straightforward.
"The 2018 Sancerre “les Monts Damnés” from Anthony and David Girard is an excellent young wine, with the profound base of minerality of this great terroir front and center on both the nose and palate. The bouquet wafts from the glass...
100% Sauvignon Blanc
From the villages of Verdigny and Sury-en-Vaux
50+ year old vines on average
Grown on terre blanches and caillotes
Indigenous yeast
Fermented and aged in tank
Honest and pure sparkling wine. Peppery and herbal, with notes of fresh cut grass, lemon curd, and lots of pretty green and yellow apple notes throughout. Crisp, clean, fruity, and delicious. Aged minimum of 3 years on lees, disgorged summer 2019.
Winemaker's Note:The vines are farmed using biodynamic methods and harvested by hand. Gaston Huët believed this to be the greatest of all Vouvray vineyards. This ancient, walled vineyard has the estate’s shallowest, stoniest soils. The wines...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 98 Points The 2015 Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux Première Trie is super clear, ripe and aromatic on the nose, highly elegant and with lovely flinty flavors. Intense and concentrated, with great finesse and vitality,...