Fourth in a series of aperitif wines served at the Kessler Cassoulet Dinner 2015.
Lou is a smart wine guy, so at the Cassoulet lineup he always includes an impressive Sauvignon Blanc. This time it is the Gerard Boulay Sancerre 2010. The mingling crowd love it, as did I, but it was a bit of a different song the Boulay was singing, Sancerre with a different style. Not brash and loudly green in the New Zealand style. Not really in the expected parameters of most Sancerre and Loire Valley Sauvignon Blancs either. Less of the audacious herbaceousness; much, much less of the sweaty gym sock funk that is one of the great pleasures of Sancerre; and more of a big, lush, rounded and mouthfilling flavor. It’s what they call Rubenesque, or if it strikes closer to home, it’s Pinetop Perkins singing “Big Fat Momma, with meat shaking on her bones.”
