2006 Pouilly Fuissé Ampélopsis, Domaine Saumaize Michelin
(6x75cl)
| Product Code: | 38586106 |
| Description: | 2006 Pouilly Fuissé Ampélopsis, Domaine Saumaize Michelin |
| Case Size: | 6x75cl |
| Producer: | Domaine Saumaize-Michelin |
| Region: | Pouilly Fuisse |
| Country: | France |
| Alc. By Vol.: | 13.5 |
Grape Varieties
| 100% | Chardonnay |
Awards and Press:
Pouilly-Fuisse, Ampelopsis, Domaine Saumaize-Michelin (2005)
Wine detailsTasting notes
Decanter Rating:*****
A 'tête de cuvée' which is bottled after 18 months. Lots of depth from an estate which is now almost entirely biodynamic.
Food Matching Note:
This full bodied white will compliment white meat in rich sauces, poultry (especially game), pork, veal or rabbit. Excellent with risotto, paella or chargrilled mediterranean vegetables.
Tasting Note:
Big, perfumed, spicey nose with plenty of pineapples and grapefruits. Just as generous on the palate with a multi layered complexity of tropical, white and stoned fruit, toasty vanilla and palate cleansing citrus rind acidity. Delicious.
Vinification Note:
Hand harvested from steeply sloping, south and south easterly facing vineyards around the village of Vergisson, 12km to the South of Mâcon. The grapes are gently pressed in a pneumatic press. After letting the wines settle all the juice is placed in barriques where it undergoes alcoholic and malolactic fermentation. The lees are stirred regularly (batonnage) which adds to the overall complexity of the finished wine. The wine spends 8 to 11 months in barriques depending on the vintage.