2008 Emmanuel Houillon (Maison Pierre Overnoy) Poulsard Arbois Pupillin

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 92.7 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View glou.sf's profile
  • Report Issue

  8/5/2023 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Overnoy & Brignot Dinner (San Francisco): Pretty, but quite reserved nose with subtle notes of red berries and blood orange that became a bit more expressive with air. Nice acidity and surprising amount of structure on the palate, along with flavors of red cherries and strawberries. Nice finish. Really lovely wine that probably needs more time and was showing quite backwards and was hard to read for the majority of the night. Interestingly, most people seemed to like this quite a bit more than I did. 94+

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View brooklynguy's profile
  • Report Issue

  3/6/2020 - brooklynguy Likes this wine:

  CO2 in the wine made it a bit prickly at first. When the nose fully opened it's gorgeous, with dried roses, high toned red fruit, blood orange, an herbal undertone, and more that's hard to put into words - it's such an individual and expressive wine. beautiful, and I'm glad i got to experience it one more time.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View KidC's profile
  • Report Issue

  10/15/2011 - KidC wrote: 92 Points

  This should be reviewed as an ecowine with a big eco stamp on the label. This is definitely not for everyone. First of all you need to decant it for at least two hours. Still then it has some nasty CO2 that disappears over the evening. Though the wine is great and holds together perfectly. Hints of leather, red oranges, cranberries and earth on the nose with an acidic fruit and earthliness in the mouth. Very well hidden alcohol. This is great! Second and best time I drunk it. Probably the best Poulsard I have had and I understand why the winemaker did not allow me to buy more than two bottles when visiting the winery. Paried with Bouf Bourginon and mash. A decent combo. But this wine is a bit hard to match with food.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View brooklynguy's profile
  • Report Issue

  9/18/2011 - brooklynguy wrote:

  what an amazing showing for this wine! Still prickly when opened, plenty of CO2 in the wine, decanted and it works its way out. Perfectly harmonious with lovely fruit, distinctly floral - dried roses, and a dried leave undertone, an almost bloody note comes and goes too. Elegant and very expressive, this is simply beautiful wine, and a reminder of why Overnoy/Hoillon's is the finest Poulsard there is.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View brooklynguy's profile
  • Report Issue

  6/16/2010 - brooklynguy wrote:

  so happy to say that this wine is doing much better, if this is a representative bottle. There is still CO2, but a decant took care of that easily. Now it shows very clean and pure, and very young, still lots of tannins and the alcohol, although only 12.5 on the label, seems a bit big. But the wine shows such beautiful and compelling fruit that is completely infused with underbrush and stone. So well structured, so intense, and seems to have the potential to grow up a bit and become entirely graceful too.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

View all 11 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.