Gérard Boulay Sancerre Chavignol 2025 Denver wet with heavy mildew pressure

wet with heavy mildew pressure and small yields

and a delicately sweet

This dedication to authenticity and respect for the land is what brings out the wine’s pure expression of the terroir

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Gérard Boulay Sancerre Chavignol 2025 Denver wet with heavy mildew pressureThe Land The steep white slopes above Chavignol are Kimmeridgian marl, the same Upper Jurassic, oyster fossil rich stage that underlies Chablis roughly 100 kilometers to the southeast. Both sit on the rim of the Paris Basin. Locals call the soil terres blanches because it whitens as it dries, and it runs about 70 percent clay to 30 percent limestone: cold, damp, slow to warm, which stretches ripening and builds structure instead of perfume. That is