This Pouilly-Fumé is at the top of the quality/price/pleasure ratio!
The domain of Riaux sees the Jeannot succeed from father to son, but the magnificent soil of clay with flint remains, and the quality requirement is transmitted from generation to generation.
The bouquet unfurls endless curls: passion fruit, citrus, blackcurrant bud, boxwood, elderflower, pepper…
The mouth is affirmed by its volume, its structure and its freshness up to a long and tense finish, the promise of good ageing.
A superb harmony between finesse and power, to be enjoyed with a sea bass with black butter sauce.
The term “smoked” has two explanations: one linked to the grape variety and the other to the terroir…
Pouilly Fumé comes from “Sauvignon blanc”, a grape variety whose clusters are formed of small ovoid grains, which are tight against each other and resemble tit eggs. When ripe, these grains are covered with a gray bloom, the color of smoke… which explains why the winegrowers of Pouilly speak among themselves of “Blanc Fumé” to designate the Sauvignon grape variety or the wines made from this grape variety.
The qualifier “smoky” also refers to the incomparable and recognizable aromas and bouquet (or “smoke”) (the famous “flint” taste that emerges from the friction of two flints), which give it the exceptional terroirs of the Pouilly/Loire vineyard… this is what GEORGES BLANCHARD (Nivernais patois poet) expressed very well with his own words that smell of the terroir, in a poem entitled “L’vin d’ Pouilly”
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