Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
This comes from three parcels within the La Baudotte lieu-dit, totalling 1.16ha on stony clay/limestone soils. The 20% new oak is stylishly handled, framing a wine that's subtle, fresh and alluring. Citrus and stone fruit flavours combine harmoniously on the palate.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Aromas of orange rind and green apple mingling with notions of citrus blossom and fresh pastry introduce the 2017 Pouilly-Fuissé Tête de Cru Les Perrières, a medium to full-bodied, tight-knit and structured wine that's deep but fine-boned, concluding with a long and precise finish. Like the Clos des Prouges, this will need a little time in the cellar to unwind, but it's very promising.
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Wine Spectator
Intense, featuring lemon cake, apple, mineral and oak spice flavors, allied to a taut, linear structure. Still reticent and needs time to reveal its charms. Offers fine balance and a lengthy aftertaste. Drink now through 2024. 120 cases imported.
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Wine Enthusiast
While this wine has plenty of warm flavors, a strongly mineral texture brings in acidity and citrus fruitiness. That gives the wine texture and freshness for aging. Drink from 2021.
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
The source of some of the most sought-after white wines of the Mâconnais, Pouilly-Fuissé is produced exclusively from the Chardonnay grape and tends to be slightly richer in style than wines from its northern neighbor, the Côte de Beaune—mainly due to warmer weather. Wines from Pouilly-Fuissé have some versatility; they can be enjoyed young and can also often improve with a little time in the cellar. Pouilly-Fuissé wines are considered some of the best values for white Burgundy.
Similar to the Côte de Beaune, the soils of Pouilly-Fuissé are mainly limestone and clay. The appellation includes the communes of Fuissé, Solutré (which includes Pouilly), Vergisson and Chaintré. The richest Chardonnay comes from Fuissé and Solutré-Pouilly, whereas the Chardonnay at higher elevation, from Vergisson, expresses more minerality and finesse. Pairing Pouilly-Fuissé with lobster or King Crab will bring great joy not only to your palate—but also your pocketbook!