Pouilly Fuissé “La Croix” 2022 - Domaine Robert Denogent

Pouilly Fuissé “La Croix” -  Domaine Robert Denogent

Domaine Robert Denogent's Pouilly Fuissé "La Croix" is a white wine made from 100% Chardonnay grapes from the Burgundian sub-area of ​​Maconnais, aged for 24 months in used oak barriques. The nose gives aromas of yellow peaches, citrus peel and fresh flowers, followed by notes of butter and dried fruit, revealing a full and substantial sip, refreshing and abundant mineral flavor. The grapes come from 4 hectares of vineyards located at different altitudes on volcanic rock hills. The vines, which have an average age of about 50 years, are grown with a low sapling with guyot pruning on soils characterized by siliceous-silty-schist soils mixed with finely fragmented sedimentary rocks in plates of different thickness. Vinification in octagonal cement barrels, 600-liter tonneau and barrique with an elevation of at least 2 winters, sometimes the elevation exceeds 32 months..

Service

We taste it at a temperature of 8/10 ° in tulip glasses. Wine to be drunk immediately but magnificently holds the time.

Pairings

Excellent as an aperitif, with seafood appetizers, preparations based on oysters, freshwater / salt water fish with sauces / roasted snails.

Winery: Domaine Robert Denogent

Domaine Robert Denogent is located in Fuissè, on the border of the Macconais area in Burgundy. The winery was founded in 1988, on the initiative of Jean Jaques Robert, who, after graduating in law, decided to take over the 5 hectares of vineyard managed until then by his father who sold the grapes to the cooperatives locals. Jean Jacques begins a work of fragmentation of the vineyards so that each label expresses the characteristics of the land of origin. It was intended that Marcel Lapierre, a pupil of Jules Chauvet, would work not far from Fuissé, precisely in Morgon, in Beaujolais, beginning to change the history of French viticulture, spreading his sustainable viticulture and starting to influence many winemakers with the idea of ​​producing natural wines. Jean Jaques was immediately fascinated by it and gave life to a process of rehabilitation of his vines without the use of chemicals. The grapes are placed on soils rich in granite and sand, harvested exclusively by hand and vinified with the classic Burgundian practices and with the sole use of native yeasts that give rise to spontaneous fermentations. Malolactic fermentation takes place in second or third passage barriques for up to 18 months on the fine lees. For several years, the sons of Jean Jaques, Nicolas and Antoine have also helped him take care of the approximately 14 hectares, where it is possible to find vines between 50 and 70 years. The wines of Domaine Robert Denogent are rich complex, and at the same time fresh and elegant, and offer all the complexity, authenticity and intensity of this wonderful territory.nt company - hence the different name!