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Domaine Jules Desjourneys Pouilly-Fuissé ‘Vignes de la Côte’ 2019

€81.48

Domaine Jules Desjourneys Pouilly-Fuissé ‘Vignes de la Cote’ 2017

This is Pouilly-Fuissé extra ordinaire. The complexity in aroma’s is like a journey. First the primairy zesty fruits, then you get creaminess of the malo and a long ripening on the fine yeasts and finally a long zesty, saline finish.

The Wine Advocate: “The 2017 Pouilly-Fuissé Vignes de la Côte has unwound a little since I last tasted it, unfurling in the glass with aromas of crisp orchard fruit, citrus oil and white flowers, mingled with hints of mint, nutmeg and fresh pastry. On the palate, it’s deep, full-bodied and muscular, with considerable concentration and structuring extract, underpinned by bright acids. As I wrote last year, this is likely to number among the longest-lived of Duperray’s wines this year, and it is worth a special effort to track down. Drink 2023-2045.” 95 points

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Domaine Jules Desjourneys

Fabien Duperray has been a renowned agent for top-level Burgundy producers (among which Romanee-Conti, Coche-Dury, and Arnaud Ente) for more than 25 years, but had no production of its own until 2007. Then he got the chance to buy a number of very old vine parcels in the best lieu-dits of Moulin-a-Vent and Fleurie, from which he has since made wines that are as rare as they are groundbreaking.

From the vineyard to the wine cellar, Duperray spares no effort or cost. He cultivates his vineyards according to biodynamic principles and plows only with a horse (Duperray feels a tractor has too great an impact on the soil structure). His grapes are hand-picked at maximum maturity, with yields kept extremely low (often below 30 hl/ha). After fermentation (mostly whole bunches, with natural yeasts and no added sulfites), the wine is aged for up to 36 months in tanks or fiberglass containers (previously old oak), and even after bottling Duperray keeps the wine in its cellars until he thinks they are ready for the market.

Since 2012 Duperray has expanded his portfolio of appellations, adding Chenas and Morgon to the Beaujolais list but also starting a collaboration with Domaine Thibert in Southern Burgundy. 2014 was the first vintage in which Duperray produced a range of stellar Chardonnays from beautiful organically farmed terroirs in Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Loché, Pouilly-Vinzelles, and Saint-Veran, as well as  Macon-Verzé and Macon-Fuissé since 2016.

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