Girard/Anthony & David Sancerre Les Monts Damnés 2019

93 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2019 les Monts Damnés from Anthony and David Girard is produced from seventy year-old vines on this great terroir, on which they farm three hectares. Their 2019 is really lovely, offering up a deep and youthful nose of gooseberry, pink grapefruit, limestone minerality, Monts Damnés lovely botanical signature scents, white flowers, citrus peel and a touch of damp grass. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and rock solid at the core, with superb mineral drive and grip, lovely acids and a long, focused, nascently complex and very well-balanced finish. This is a properly structured young bottle of Monts Damnés and really deserves a few years in the cellar to blossom completely, but it is already very tasty and I have to imagine plenty of these bottles will be savored in their first blush of youth! Fine, fine juice. 2021-2035. (May/Jun 2021)"

93 points Rebecca Gibb, MW (Vinous): "From one of the appellation's most famous vineyards, the 2019 Sancerre Les Monts Damnés reveals a seamless, full-bodied style that expands in the mouth but never verges on heaviness. A satisfying and textural style, the wine seems to form a perfect circle before making your mouth water like a rabid dog. Fermentation mostly in tank with 10% oak imbues the merest background note of wood, but this wine is about clarity of fruit and textural appeal. Drink: 2021-2028. (Aug 2021)"

91 points Wine Enthusiast: "Intense green fruits and minerality come together in this full wine with ripe fruits and a tight, young texture. It is a structured wine, the exuberant fruit held in by bold fruits. Drink from 2022. (Dec 2020)"