Winemaker Notes
Opening with notes of yellow apples and pears, pear cream and lemon curd combined with green plums and white peaches. The fruits are accompanied by white flowers and a handful of kitchen herbs. Silky and fine with fresh, lively acidity.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Ripe citrus fruit, dried apricot and floral character, enriched by a dense layer of smooth minerals on the nose and palate. Medium-bodied with great poise and balance, creating an intense yet at the same time relaxed mouthfeel and a long finish. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification. Classy.
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Vinous
The 2022 Caillottes has real tension despite the ripe vintage. This is clean and pure. There's an orchard fruit flavor with lees-derived pastry notes. Excellent concentration and intensity join substance and structure, perhaps an effect of the low yields due to the dry vintage.
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Wine Spectator
Expressive and complex, with a rush of warm apple, quince and citrus preserves flecked with accents of dried green herbs and verbena. Density builds, with salted brioche and blanched almond notes chiming in, followed by a cleansing jolt of acidity. A pithy grapefruit hint makes for a pleasingly bitter-edged finish, with nice cut. Drink now through 2032. 1,020 cases made, 240 cases imported.
Capable of a vast array of styles, Sauvignon Blanc is a crisp, refreshing variety that equally reflects both terroir and varietal character. Though it can vary depending on where it is grown, a couple of commonalities always exist—namely, zesty acidity and intense aromatics. This variety is of French provenance. Somm Secret—Along with Cabernet Franc, Sauvignon Blanc is a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon. That green bell pepper aroma that all three varieties share is no coincidence—it comes from a high concentration of pyrazines (herbaceous aromatic compounds) inherent to each member of the family.
Famous in the Loire and throughout the world for perfumed Sauvignon blanc, Pouilly-Fume sits due east, across the Loire River from Sancerre. Limestone soils with clay and flint (also called silex) contribute to the wines' freshness and often times smoky, flinty, mineral character.