2020 La Soufrandière Pouilly-Vinzelles Les Quarts

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  3/1/2024 - vvWine.ch wrote: 91 Points

  (100% Chardonnay) Leicht trübes Gelb. Die Nase ist zitrisch, mineralisch geprägt, dezente Hefenoten, florale Töne, kandierte Früchte. Im Gaumen schlank, knackige Frucht, markante Säure, ein Wein mit Biss und Rasse, gnadenlos trocken, salin im Finish. Sehr gute Länge, definitiv mit Charakter und nichts für Kuscheltrinker.

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  7/8/2023 - Stadshagen Conoisseur Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Well balanced, nice complexity, no exessive oak, medium long aftertaste. A very unique and specific terroir taste, great wine and ready to drink.

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  10/19/2022 - vindictive wrote:

  beautiful mineral Macon - drink now

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  7/29/2022 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  A touch of petrol-like reduction greets the nose. It has intense peach fruit and a touch of something fruits exotic. There's some honeysuckle too and freshly grated ginger. It is rich, dense and sappy, but not heavy or cumbersome. It is cut with fresh, minerally acidity and has length to burn. Seriously good wine.

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  5/16/2022 - originalverkorkt Likes this wine: 93 Points

  The Les Quarts vineyard is undoubtedly one of the best terroirs in the Pouilly-Vinzelles appellation. The fantastically situated vineyard faces south-east and has 48 to 80-year-old Chardonnay vines on siliceous and above all ferruginous clay and limestone soil from the Bajocium (Jura). The wines produced there are long-lived, well-balanced. Hand-harvested from 24 to 25 August 2020, whole bunch pressing and spontaneous fermentation, then ageing for 17 months, first in pièces for eleven months and then in barrels with 100% malolactic fermentation. The added sulphur is 40 mg/l.
  
  light golden yellow
  
  Les Quarts is a southern Burgundy, but impressively bright and crisp in 2020. Its aromas are reminiscent of white flowers, pencil shavings with graphite and wood, some oregano and verbena, blanched almonds and yellow as well as green citrus fruits. This comes across as lively, fresh, clear as well as precise and, after two somewhat fuller but likewise always well-balanced vintages, follows on from 2017 in particular.
  
  On the palate, the wine is typically powerful and firm with a light tannin and a particularly punchy intense acidity this year that provides tension. It is amazing that the wine has undergone 100% malolactic fermentation. The Bret brothers harvest to the point, so that the citrusy, tartness and silkiness of the yeast ageing, the tannin and a certain meatiness combine to form a very well-made whole.

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