JP Auvigue’s Pouilly Fuissé les Chailloux: Hand crafted Chardonnay from a privileged vineyard plot

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 The Domaine Auvigue Les Chailloux label

2008 White Burgundies:

“…sweet and sexy and nicely reflective of their sites.” -Allen Meadows, Burghound

This is a fabulous, stylish white French Burgundy Pour this into a goblet and catch those nuances of honey and citrus and mineral notes wafting up your nose.

I know there are a lot of people who know the name Pouilly-Fuissé. 100% Chardonnay Pouilly Fuissé comes from the Maconnais, an area which is part of Burgundy, but south of the Cote d’Or (home to Meursault etc.). There isn’t actually a commune named Pouilly Fuisse, but there is a commune named Fuissé and its vineyards can use the name Pouilly Fuissé.

There are three other communes (villages and their surrounding vineyards) who can use the name also: Vergisson, Solutré-Pouilly and Chaintre. To make things even more enticing, Pouilly Fuissé les Chailloux is from a special, tiny little climat. A climat is a parcel of land officially recognized as having superior terroir which is part of a vineyard.

Auvigue’s Pouilly Fuissé les Chailloux has lively acidity. I love acidity in a wine; it wards off that flabby, flat taste that makes a wine lifeless. Acidity defines a wine and gives it clarity, definition and freshness.

But, do you know what else I like about this wine? Its purity of taste – from the time it hits your tongue for the first time and swirls all the way around your mouth to the last tail of it down your throat – nothing but pure, grea tfruit and mineral flavors. That’s one of the reasons we know Jean-Pierre Auvigue is such a great winemaker.

I dare you to keep this in your cellar for longer than a few weeks or one really, good party. Better take two cases. Cynthia Hurley