Sancerre Le Mont Damne 2008 Didier Dagueneau

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (93)

White peach, gooseberry, grapefruit, chalk dust, and saline, alkaline intimations of ocean breeze in the nose of Dagueneau’s 2008 Sancerre Monts Damnes usher in a palate strikingly combining a silken texture with clarity and brightness, palpable extract-richness with lift. This positively billows into a non-stop finish with bittersweet, musky floral essences (iris, narcissus) adding to a shimmering interactive complexity of fruit, herb, and mineral nuances. A future classic, it should, I suspect (absent a track record, granted), be worth following for a dozen or more years.