L’accord parfait de Jonathan Ferrando, chef sommelier du groupe Cyril Lignac :
Notre Pouilly-Fumé Arrêt-Buffatte 2012 avec des escalopes de foie gras de canard des Landes poêlées !
« Ce sauvignon vivace doté d’une belle corpulence, est idéal sur la cuisson poêlée du foie gras, la minéralité et les arômes d’agrumes venant en rappel sur le condiment citron vert et la vinaigrette aigre douce »
Notre Sancerre Blanc Frétoy 2024 a obtenu
Vinum – dégustation de Birte Jantzen –
Indeed, before 1880, the Chasselas grape variety was very present in the vineyard, particularly for the production of table grapes. Thanks to the railway, the grapes traveled from Pouilly to Paris in a few hours and were resold, freshly picked, in Paris. Unfortunately, everything stopped in the 1880s, with the arrival of phylloxera in the vineyard. This insect, which came from America in 1863, ravaged French vines, region after region, for around thirty years, until the vineyards were replanted with American rootstocks, naturally resistant to this little aphid. The Pouilly vineyard, then destroyed by phylloxera, the winegrowers decided to reorient themselves towards Sauvignon Blanc, a grape variety which allows them to produce more complex wines. The vines planted in Chasselas disappear little by little from the vineyard…
