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Name: Domaine BOULAY GERARD CLOS DE BEAUJEU 2018
Brand: Vitis Epicuria
Price: 51.3 EUR
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.8 (113 reviews)

The Domaine Gérard Boulay is one of the great domains of the Sancerre appellation. It is located in the vicinity of Chavignol, where the famous crottin is also produced. A sloping vineyard where old vines reign, the work of the Gérard Boulay estate is demanding, it wishes to express all the beauty of the terroirs. The wines are full-bodied, generous, with an exemplary concentration for ageing.

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Domaine BOULAY GERARD CLOS DE BEAUJEU 2018

Appellation : SANCERRE

Millésime : 2018

Color : Blanc sec

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Domaine BOULAY GERARD COMTESSE 2018

Appellation : SANCERRE

Millésime : 2018

Color : Blanc sec

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Domaine Gérard Boulay is based in Chavignol, the most prestigious hamlet of the Sancerre appellation, renowned for its Kimmeridgian terroirs. Gérard Boulay cultivates around ten hectares of vines in Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir, primarily on the legendary lieux-dits of Monts Damnés, Clos de Beaujeu, and La Grande Côte. Since 1990, the estate has practised uncertified organic viticulture with minimal intervention in the cellar, producing wines of exceptional purity and minerality, ranked among the appellation's elite alongside Cotat and Vatan.

L'histoire du domaine

The history of the Boulay family in Chavignol stretches back centuries: an old sign in the tasting room proudly reads "Vignerons depuis 1310," and archival records from 1380 confirm that a certain Jean Boulay already owned vineyards in the village. As early as the 14th century, the Clos de Beaujeu in Chavignol was famed for the quality of its white wines — a remarkable fact given that Sancerre was then known for its reds — and it supplied the Cathedral of Saint-Étienne in Bourges. Gérard's grandfather, André Boulay, presided over the local Union Viticole at the time the appellation d'origine was granted. Gérard Boulay took over the estate in 1975 and from the outset laid the foundations for exacting viticulture, but it was in the mid-1990s that he took the defining step of bottling the entire production under his own name, with the ambition of bringing each wine to its highest level of expression. Since then, the domaine has established itself as one of the essential references in Sancerre.

Le terroir

The estate covers around 12 hectares, of which 8 are located on the steep slopes of Chavignol, planted on Kimmeridgian soils — the famous clay-limestone "terres blanches" rich in marl and fossils, akin to those of Chablis. The parcels are distributed across the three great recognised crus of the village: Monts Damnés, a steep south-facing slope where Gérard has farmed a parcel since 1982, Clos de Beaujeu, a historic terroir cleared in the Middle Ages by the monks of Beaujeu with vertiginous gradients reaching 60 to 70%, and La Grande Côte, renowned for its precision. Since 1990, Gérard Boulay has practised uncertified organic viticulture: manual ploughing with a tracked vehicle on the steepest slopes, grass cover to limit erosion, and elimination of pesticides and copper. The vines, the youngest of which were planted in 1972, have an average age of 45 years and dig deep into these limestone soils, conferring the wines' characteristic mineral density.

Les vins

The domaine produces a range of around ten cuvées in the Sancerre appellation, 80% white and 20% red and rosé. The whites, all from Sauvignon Blanc, are built around a Tradition Chavignol cuvée — a blend of young vines on Kimmeridgian slopes — followed by four prestige single-parcel cuvées: Clos de Beaujeu, a deep and structured wine from a one-hectare historic parcel with stony, fossil-rich soils, Monts Damnés, a precise and chiselled wine from Chavignol's warmest slope, La Côte (first vintage 2010), the most expressive and precise cuvée from La Grande Côte, and Comtesse (first vintage 2005), the most powerful and concentrated cuvée from 50- to 75-year-old vines at the bottom of the Monts Damnés slope. The reds and rosés are made from Pinot Noir: the rosé Sibylle comes from 35- to 40-year-old vines, and the red Oriane is produced in tiny quantities. The Boulay style is immediately recognisable: precise, taut wines of crystalline purity, with chalky minerality and an ageing capacity of 10 to 20 years or more.

Le vigneron

Gérard Boulay embodies the figure of the discreet and perfectionist vigneron, deeply rooted in the terroir of Chavignol. Since taking charge of the estate in 1975, he has continuously sought the truth of each parcel through meticulous vineyard work and a non-interventionist approach in the cellar. Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, minimal — or zero — addition of sulphur, ageing in old foudres and 300-litre barrels with no new oak, ageing on fine lees without bâtonnage: every decision aims to let the wine live and not alter the expression of fruit and soil. He describes his role as that of a "guardian," working "au feeling" with a simple yet profound conviction: "C'est la nature qui fait le vin" (Nature makes the wine). This humility and rigour have made him one of the most respected vignerons in the Loire, alongside his neighbours Cotat and Vatan, elevating the wines of Chavignol to the pinnacle of what Sauvignon Blanc can express.

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