Pouilly-Fuissé Climat La Roche - 2017
Bret Brothers
- Region
- France » Burgundy » Mâconnais » Pouilly-Fuissé AOC
- Type
- white still, dry
- Producer
- Bret Brothers
- Vintage
- 2017
- Grapes
- Chardonnay
- Alcohol
- 14
- Volume
- 750 mL
- Cellar
- not available
Ratings
Tasted blind. My guess was Chardonnay from France (no specific region). Oak is obvious here but not new. Some oxidation seems to be present. Butter, vanilla, slightly baked apple, honey. Lovely evolution of the taste: it starts with a pinched acidity that flows quickly into a long oily aftertaste with flavours of honey and apples and a mineral touch. Well-balanced and sophisticated. Nice.
Bret Brothers
Côte d'Or often comes to mind when you talk about Burgundy. But let's not forget that besides this golden mine, Burgundy has other wonderful regions to offer, including Chablis and Mâconnais. The latter is the home of Jean-Paul and Jean-Guillaume Bret. These brothers set up the project in 2001, intending to produce terroir wines from selected plots. Their formula is dead simple. Every wine is made of grapes from a single plot of 40+ years old vines from a single farmer. Yup, unlike their other project, La Soufrandière, they buy grapes for Bret Brothers wines.
Today they produce around 50,000 bottles in 14 different cuvées, around 8 ha. It includes grapes sourced from Beaujolais (Brouilly, Lantignié, Chénas and Juliénas). This expansion happened in 2013.