Pouilly-Fuissé 1er Cru Sur la roche Verget 2023
Pouilly-Fuissé Premier Cru AOC
13.5%
1.5L
Intensity
What makes this wine special?
Only the juice from the first press has undergone meticulous vinification, resulting in this complex wine that brilliantly combines character and verticality.
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Pouilly-Fuissé 1er Cru Sur la roche Verget 2023
The wine
Need we still introduce you to the man known as the ‘white wine goldsmith’? Jean-Marie Guffens, who heads the specialist wine trading house Verget, is indeed the man behind this cuvée, produced alongside his wife Maine and Julien Desplans. Together, they have created this Sur la Roche Pouilly-Fuissé Premier Cru, produced from Chardonnay vines planted in a terroir with an ideal south-easterly exposure. The vines are encouraged to draw the nutrients they need to flourish from the shallow, predominantly chalky soil, which contributes to the wine’s fresh, vertical, mineral character. The grapes are hand-picked, and the first press juice – the purest – is vinified in casks with 25% new wood. The wine then matures in wood for eight months.
In the glass, the wine reveals a complexity that combines the character of the ageing process - empyreumatic and buttery notes - with that of the terroir itself - minerality and freshness of fruit.
The brilliant wine-maker Jean-Marie Guffens is behind Maison Verget which produces wines from grapes sourced across Burgundy but predominately from Mâconnais. This company created in 1990 in Sologny brings together all the wines of the trading business, with a superb range of appellations, from Chablis to Mâconnais, to highlight the specificities and nuances of each terroir.
The wines have acquired a solid reputation for their diamond-polished characteristics which are always very pure as well as being both rich and taut at the same time. The grapes are sourced from exemplary partner wineries and the winemaking and maturation processes are conduction with the same precision. A safe bet in Burgundy, Jean-Marie Guffens-Heynen is a Master in the art of Chardonnay. Since 2012, the brilliant oenologist Julien Desplans has joined him as a cellar master. Trained at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, he takes the company to new heights, helping it win the award “Trading Business of the Year” in 2020 from the French wine magazine La Revue du vin de France. Read our article about Maison Verget on the iDealwine blog
Detailed characteristics
- Quantity:
- 2 bottles
- Level:
- 2 Normal
- Observation:
- 2 Marginally marked labels
- Origin:
- private individual
- Type of cellar:
- other
- Recoverable VAT:
- no
- Wooden case:
- no
- Local excise duty seal:
- yes
- Alcohol percentage:
- 13.5 %
- Region:
- Burgundy
- Appellation:
- Pouilly-Fuissé
- Classification:
- Premier Cru
- Owner:
- Verget
- Vintage:
- 2023
- Colour:
- white
- Service temperature:
- 12°
- Viticulture:
- environmentally friendly More information....
- Intensity:
- crisp
- Leading aroma:
- mineral
- Tasting occasion:
- food-friendly wine
- Grape variety:
- Chardonnay
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