Winemaker Notes
The 2018 Pouilly-Vinzelles carries aromas of exotic fruits and vanilla. An ample and round mouthfeel with flavors of banana and brioche.
Pairs well with crayfish, white meat, escargot, and comte cheese.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Louis Latour Pouilly-Vinzelles En Paradis is bright and frisky. TASTING NOTES; This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of ripe fruit, savory spices, and earth. Enjoy it with lightly grilled prawns. (Tasted: April 6, 2022, San Rafael, CA)
Maison Louis Latour is one of the most highly-respected négociant-éléveurs in Burgundy. Maison Louis Latour is the producer of some of the finest Burgundian wines but has also pioneered the production of fine wines from outside Burgundy's confines. These wines from the Ardèche and the Côteaux de Verdon are slowly gaining esteem for their unmatchable quality outside Burgundy.
All the grapes from the vineyards owned by the Latour family are vinified and aged in the attractive cuverie of Chateau Corton Grancey in Aloxe-Corton. The winery was the first purpose-built cuverie in France and remains the oldest still functioning. A unique railway system with elevators allows the entire wine-making process to be achieved by the use of gravity. This eliminates the threat of oxidation from unnecessary pumping of the must. Since 1985, Louis Latour has been selling the wines of its own vineyards under the name Domaine Louis Latour.
Louis Latour has been a leader in environmentally responsible winemaking for over 15 years. Louis Latour has had ISO 14001 accreditation for Environmental Management Systems since 2003 and has been part of the European association FARRE since 1998- a group of like-minded companies who seek to develop and promote sustainable methods of agriculture.
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.
Perched upon a steep, east-facing scarp, which it shares with the sup-appellation of Chaintré, Pouilly-Vinzelles borders Pouilly-Fuissé on its eastern side. Vineyards here overlie the same Jurassic rocks that form the upper slopes of the Monts du Mâconnais with soils, predominantly clay and limestone, varying from the upper to lower slopes.
A fine Pouilly-Vinzelles (always made of Chardonnay) will have a bouquet of honey, acacia, stone fruit and citrus; its power and fresh mineral character will carry it into age, with the possibility of developing qualities of green almond, hazelnut, quince, cinnamon and toast.
When young, pair a Pouilly-Vinzelles with fresh water fish, escargots de Bourgogne or choucroute with sausages and potatoes. After some age, these natural partners to wild morels and chicken or duck with turnips.