Wine Reviews

The 2021 Pouilly-Fuisse Tournant de Pouilly 1er Cru was reduced to four barrels this year due to extensive hail damage. It has an attractive bouquet with lemon verbena and crushed chalky scents. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, taut and fresh, quite saline with lemon thyme and light ginger notes towards a finish that has a pleasing directness

The 2020 Pouilly-Fuissé Tournant de Pouilly 1er Cru is much more Zen-like, backward on the nose that does not want to come out and play, yet there is clearly coiled up intensity here and it just needs some bottled age. The palate is well balanced with a fine spine of acidity thanks to the limestone soil, a little chalkiness coming through on the focused finish. Very fine.

Notes of citrus zest, white flowers, crisp stone fruit, vanilla pod and almond paste introduce the 2019 Pouilly-Fuissé Hors-Classe Tournant de Pouilly, a medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered wine that’s deep and concentrated, with a seamless profile and racy girdling acids. Concluding with a long, mineral finish, it has turned out especially well.

This white leaves a chalky sensation coating the gums after delivering its payload of apple, lemon and baking spice flavors. It has restrained power, leaving a nervy, resonant finish.

It delivers pale fruit richness without any sense of sweetness, sustained by a long limestone buzz of acidity. Layered with scents of orange zest and pineapple, butter, acorn and pale stone, it’s a complex wine offering savory satisfaction.