Pouilly-Fumé Domaine Landrat-Guyollot, Gemme Océane 2022 - 97 points Decanter

£34.95 per bottle

ABV 14.0%

97 points Decanter World Wine Awards
Pouilly-Fumé and Sancerre are often considered twins, separated only by the river Loire. If so, they’re definitely not identical. Sancerre is often higher sited and stonier, with some dramatic hill slopes; Pouilly-Fume is a shyer appellation, lurking in the forest on more softly contoured vineyards, and often with a little more clay in its soils. You can clearly see that character in this, the first Pouilly-Fumé to feature in our Best in Show selection. If you’re looking for a ‘screaming Sauvignon’, look elsewhere: this wine is subtle, understated and compelling, almost as if you could smell the coolness of the site and the proximity of shady trees. In the mouth, it’s soft and secondary: gently and calmly fruity to begin with, all dessert-apple and quince, then with its distinctive sap and green wealth growing in the mouth, filling out those fruits and lending them dignity and completeness. Before you know it, the glass will be empty.

Tasting Notes
Situated in the Saint-Andelain comune, a terroir made up of Siliceous fossiles, quarts and flint pebbles, these are the famous `Chailloux` assosiated with the quality that comes from the upper Loire. right golden colour with a light green hue. Herbal and grassy nose with lime, lemongrass and crushed apple. The palate has good weight with medium body and the typical gun flint notes with youthful fruit, ripe lemon zest and elderflower with an elegant, long and flinty finish.

Food
Blue Brittany lobster in a citrus sauce, scallops in a curry sauce with apple compote and fine fishes (monkfish, hallibut)

Region
This beautiful region is situated 200Km south of Paris and extends west along the high reaches of the Loire River. This is a cold climate region making top quality wines from Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir and includes the following famous villages; Sancerre, Pouilly Sur Loire, Quincy and Menetou-Salon. The soils have a high percentage of flint and limestone, and this results in crisp, aromatic whites and perfumed, elegant rose and reds. Littered with artisan producers, the best single Domaine wines are made in small quantities and are of top quality.

Producer
The estate has been in the ownership of the present family for some ten generations and comprises of 15 hectares of vines in the prestigious communes of Saint-Andelain, Tracy and Pouilly. They also boast modern and well-equipped cellars in Saint Andelain. At Pouilly, the microclimate, influenced by the Loire, gives very long and sunny autumns with cool nights and morning mists that favour the maturity of Sauvignon Blanc wonderfully, allowing it to gain aromatic complexity over time. Between limestone, marl and flinty clay, a mosaic of soils and sub-soils of unmatched richness, that gives Blanc Fumé wines both infi¬nitely and uniquely sculpted nuances.