White

Henri Bourgeois La Chapelle des Augustins (Sancerre)

Henri Bourgeois

Sancerre · France

Ficha técnica

Tipo
White
Uva
Sauvignon Blanc
País
France
Região
Sancerre
Denominação
Sancerre
Corpo
medium
Acidez
high
Doçura
dry

Harmonização

mariscos · salada de queijo de cabra · peixes grelhados · sushi · frango assado

Safras avaliadas

  • 2020

  • 2019

  • 2018

  • 2017

  • 2016

  • 201590 pts

    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 d…

  • 201492 pts

    The combination of chalk and flint soils has produced a wine that is young and all about minerality at this stage. It has considerable potential with its hints of ripe fruits. For now, with texture dominant, it is still fresh, tangy and developing. Drink from 2018.

  • 201392 pts

    Chalk and flint soil contribute to this tight, tangy, amazingly crisp wine. Behind this still-young texture await ripe apples, green plums and orange peel. Packed with acidity and still developing, this wine needs some more time. Drink from 2017.

  • 201292 pts

    Grown in a chalk and flint soil, this is a strongly textured, tight wine. It has a dense mineral character, steely and with layers of citrus. Very dry, very young, this impressive wine needs to age until 2015 before drinking.

  • 2011