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Pouilly Fumé Arrêt-Buffate 2010 : 91 Points

« Exceptionally elegant with authoritative flavors of white peaches, honeyed melons, lemon zest, smoke and crushed chalk. This expansive as well as well-delineated, vigorous, super-fresh white wine cascades across the palate. Drink this beauty over the next several years. »

Pouilly Fumé Génetin 2010 : 88 Points

« Slightly more honey-suckle and ripe melon notes along with a more textured, fleshly mouthfeel and classic Sauvignon characteristics from the chalky soils of this appellation. »

Sancerre Blanc 2010 : 87 Points

« Notes of freshly mowed grass intermixed with hints of lemon zest and ripe melon presented in a crisp, fresh, naked, medium-bodied style. Drink it over the next 1-2 years. Tinel-Blondelet a well-known and highly respected estate, has produced three meritorious cuvees. »

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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…