Pouilly-Fuissé 2022
Pouilly-Fuissé 2022
AC, Domaine Leflaive, 750 ml
Attributes
| Grape variety: | Chardonnay |
| Producer: | Domaine Leflaive / Anne Claude Leflaive |
| Origin: | France / Bourgogne / Mâconnais |
| Other vintages: | 2023 |
| Label: | Certified organic or biodynamic wine with no declaration on the label |
| Ripening potential: | 1 to 6 years |
| Drinking temperature: | 10 to 12 °C |
| Food Pairing: | Apéro riche, Seafood salad, Vegetable pie, White cheese |
| Vinification: | soft pressing, fermentation in steel tank |
| Maturation: | in large wooden barrel/foudre, in steel tank, some months bottle storage before sale |
| Volume: | 13.0 % |
| Note: | Contains sulphites |
Mâconnais
Mâconnais: Chardonnay country
Around 7,000 hectares are planted with vines in the Mâconnais, close to 75 percent of which are Chardonnay. The Mâconnais is thus the most significant Chardonnay growing area in Burgundy in terms of numbers. Although it is the southernmost white wine area in Burgundy, distinctively light, crisp wines originate here. Thanks to improvements in quality in the vineyard and cellar, the quality of the wines from the Mâconnais has also increased markedly in recent years.
Bourgogne
Burgundy: home of the crus
Burgundy and Bordeaux are France’s most prestigious wine regions. Nonetheless, they are completely distinct in character: while Bordeaux, as the land of the chateaux, enjoys an aristocratic image, Burgundy has retained its rustic agrarian structure. Burgundy stretches for over 200 kilometres, from Dijon in the north to Lyon in the south. In a highly complex jigsaw of the most diverse of terroirs, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir demonstrate the subtle ways in which they embody their sources.
France
France – Philosophy in a bottle
According to French philosophy, wine should be an expression of the soil and climate. They use the word “terroir” to describe this. Terroir makes every wine different, and many especially good. French wine is regarded worldwide as an expression of cultural perfection. The French believe that humans are responsible for the quality of the berries, the vine variety for their character, and nature for the quantity. This philosophy can be expressed succinctly as: “the truth is the vineyard, not the man.”
