Country: France / La Chapelle des Augustins
Variety: Sauvignon Blanc Loire Valley
Winery: Henri Bourgeois / Sancerre
This is an intensely herbal wine. Its high alcohol doesn’t take away from its green fruit, gooseberry and cool taste. Perhaps it does increase the intensity of all these elements, producing a wine that is both rich and also taut and mineral. It does seem to need more aging, so drink from 2018.