Domaine Cheveau Pouilly-Fuisse 'Aux Combes' 2024

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Domaine Cheveau Pouilly-Fuisse 'Aux Combes' 2024Pouilly Fuiss Aux Combes formerly constituted half of the Trois Terroirs cuve, which is no longer in production beginning with the 2020 vintage. The vineyard borders Vers Cras (newly upgraded to Premier Cru) in the commune of Solutr Pouillywith an exposition that consistently fares very well in today's warm summers. Nicolas employed a single 40 hectoliter foudre (2013 origin) in the raising of this 2020 Aux Combes, and the wine shows all the clarity

it pours a lightly hazy salmon in the glass

so the wine has no trouble undergoing spontaneous primary fermentation

hard limestone soils of Taillepieds produce a wine of thundering minerality whose presence is felt even through its blatantly salty finish

Melogranino

this is wilder in character than the Vosne-Romanée

000 feet above sea level

subtle salinity

Seeking extreme ripeness

The wine is generally supple

are transferred by gravity into subterranean amphorae

It wears its 20% new oak very well (Jean-Marc is particularly deft in his balancing of wood and wine)

granite and blue schists