Arrêt-Buffatte is the name of the plot that is located along the Roman Road linking Paris to Clermont-Ferrand. A long time ago, people stopped here to have a break and to eat.
Grape variety: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Terroir : Kimmeridgian marls
Age of the vines : 45 years old
One of the best exposures at Pouilly. L’Arrêt-Buffatte grows on a geological amphitheatre at the slope’s summit overlooking the Loire River.
Traditional vinification in thermo-regulated stainless steel tanks
Maturation on fine lees
Late bottling for a full bodied wine
A robe of golden highlights
Minerality, vast aromatic complexity, great aging potential
White flowers and Passion fruit aromas.
Serve at 12°C
Gambas or grilled cuttlefish “a la Plancha”,Scallops and after 5 years, old Chicken with morels
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…
