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2020 Pouilly-Fuissé, Au Vignerais, 1er Cru, Olivier Merlin, Burgundy
- White
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- Chardonnay
Ready - youthful
(Drink 2024 - 2038)
- Allen Meadows
- 91/100
- Neal Martin
- 93/100
Product: 20208145309
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Description
Vignerais is a large vineyard, but the Merlins are in the highest part – at 350 metres’ altitude and facing south. Olivier explains that this is typically very austere in youth and requires a little patience. It is presently quite prickly, with an angular, citrus profile. Expect this to gain weight and breadth with time.
Berry Bros. & Rudd
Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Alcohol % 13%
Maturity Ready - youthful
(2024 - 2038)
Grape List Chardonnay
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Olivier Merlin
Critics reviews
Allen Meadows 91/100
This is the first wine to display any appreciable reduction, and here, it's enough to blur the detail of what is clearly ripe fruit. There is fine intensity to the sleeker and utterly delicious flavors that retain excellent delineation on the bone-dry and youthfully austere finale, which is shaped by lemon-tinged acidity on the sneaky long finale. If you're going to crack a bottle young, be sure to give it 30 minutes in a wide-bottom decanter.
Drink from 2026 onward
Neal Martin 93/100
The 2020 Pouilly-Fuissé Au Vignoret 1er Cru comes from a one-third-hectare parcel. It has a complex bouquet with yellow fruit, lanolin, and crushed rock aromas. The palate is very well balanced, elegant, and precise, a little more linear and direct than the Clos de France and very persistent towards the finish. Merlin described this as very Côte d'Or in style—I can see what he means except for the price, maybe!).
Drink 2023 - 2040