2012 Pouilly-Fumé, 'Les Cris' Domaine Alain Cailbourdin

2012 Pouilly-Fumé, 'Les Cris' Domaine Alain Cailbourdin

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2012 Pouilly-Fumé, 'Les Cris' Domaine Alain Cailbourdin

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To date I have normally selected Alain's Pouilly-Fume from 'Les Cornets', a deep expression of Sauvignon Blanc coming from profound marne soils overlooking the Loire. But re-tasting his 2012 vintage wine from the vineyard of 'Les Cris', I realised  our customers were missing something. 'Les Cris' heralds from the village of Tracy, further along the bank, and as its name suggests it's liberally sprinkled with white lime stones - les 'craies', which naturally becomes 'Cris' in dialect (or am I imagining that?) .

This blanket white effect given the wines a crisp,  sherbet fruit freshness and zip; it's wonderfully exhilarating, almost menthol like, made more so by the cool vintage. To taste, it's impeccably precise, with presence, detailed, with talc like white fruit texture and elegance. Perfect with fried whole anchovies (or I am dreaming that too!).
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Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon Blanc

An important white grape in Bordeaux and the Loire Valley that has now found fame in New Zealand and now Chile. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux and is blended with Sémillon to produce fresh, dry, crisp  Bordeaux Blancs, as well as more prestigious Cru Classé White Graves.

It is also blended with Sémillon, though in lower proportions, to produce the great sweet wines of Sauternes. It performs well in the Loire Valley and particularly on the well-drained chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, where it produces bone dry, highly aromatic, racy wines, with grassy and sometimes smoky, gunflint-like nuances.

In New Zealand, Cloudy Bay in the 1980s began producing stunning Sauvignon Blanc wines with extraordinarily intense nettly, gooseberry, and asparagus fruit, that set Marlborough firmly on the world wine map. Today many producers are rivalling Cloudy Bay in terms of quality and Sauvignon Blanc is now New Zealand`s trademark grape.

It is now grown very successfully in Chile producing wines that are almost halfway between the Loire and New Zealand in terms of fruit character. After several false starts, many South African producers are now producing very good quality, rounded fruit-driven Sauvignon Blancs.

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