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Sancerre Blanc Le MD de Bourgeois Les Monts Damnés

The 2019 Henri Bourgeois Sancerre Blanc Le MD de Bourgeois Les Monts Damnés has earned its place in The World of Fine Wine’s handpicked collection of tasting notes, featuring insights from the world’s foremost wine authorities. Explore in-depth commentary from wine experts Andrew Jefford, Stephen Brook and Stephan Reinhardt on Sancerre Blanc Le MD de Bourgeois Les Monts Damnés - an internationally acclaimed dry white from Loire.
Sancerre Blanc Le MD de Bourgeois Les Monts Damnés
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Wine Name
Sancerre Blanc Le MD de Bourgeois Les Monts Damnés

Wine Producer
Henri Bourgeois

Score
92

Wine Style
White - Dry

Grape Type
Sauvignon Blanc

Country
France

Vintage
2017

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Stephen Brook | Lovely nose, unmistakably Sauvignon, with a complex bouquet of grass, green apple, and grapefruit. Vibrant and very fresh. Good attack, lean, limpid, and precise, with fine acidity but not harshness, though there is a trace of bitterness that is bracing rather than disturbing. Balanced, long, dry, and suffused with gentle extract. | 92

Andrew Jefford | Pale gold. Clean, pure, sappy, and fresh; some muted lime, and a soft planty sweetness interwoven in the freshness. Delicate and attractive. A tiny reductive note, which may resolve with time in the bottle. On the palate, this is clean, fresh, pure, stony, and incisive, with a lovely percussive force to it which it’s hard not to associate with its “mineral” identity; the aftertaste, too, seems mineral-salty, bicarbonate. The fruit really does take second place here and plays a passive-supportive role to the subtle but dominant acidity and “otherness” we call mineral. | 91

Stephan Reinhardt | This white-yellow wine has a very fine but intense bouquet of white fruits intertwined with finely flinty notes of crushed stones. On the palate, this is a dense and racy, firmly structured and persistent Mont Damnés, in a lean and elegant but classically structured style. Excellent but still very young. Keep it for at least three or four years. | 92

Details

Wine expert Andrew Jefford
Stephen Brook
Stephan Reinhardt
Tastings year 2019
Region Loire
AppellationAOC
% Alcohol By Volume13.5
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