Wine Enthusiast ratings 2026

Wine Enthusiast

Pouilly Fumé Génetin 2024  91 pts – A combination of floral and freshly-turned earth aromas entice the nose along with white rose petal and lilac. The palate brings flavors of wet river stone and lemon shavings to the fore followed by a lingering mineral finish. This wine would especially flatter shellfish, goat cheese and toasted […]

Le Point

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Le Point – Article sur le Chasselas à Pouilly sur Loire. Notre Pouilly sur Loire 2018 Domaine Tinel-Blondelet noté 14,5/20.

Guide Estival de la Nièvre

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Guide Estival de la Nièvre 2016 – Profession vigneronne – Rencontre avec Annick Tinel-Blondelet du Domaine Tinel-Blondelet

Cuisine et Vins de France

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Cuisine et Vins de France – N°168 Février / Mars 2016 “Le vignoble qui monte – Pouilly Fumé et Pouilly sur Loire Entre Berry et Bourgogne, deux appellations se partagent les croupes généreuses et vallons rebondis d’un sol vertueux.” A propos de la sélection : Sur la petite cinquantaine de vins goûtés au syndicat, il […]

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…