Jonathan Didier Pabiot Pouilly-Fumé Léon 2023

Jonathan Didier Pabiot Pouilly-Fumé Léon is an assemblage of mature vines rooted in the estate’s three key soil types.

Pouilly-Fumé sits on the right bank of the Loire opposite Sancerre, and its character comes from a mix of caillottes, terres blanches and silex, the flint from which the appellation takes its smoky name. Léon, which was previously labelled Florilège, is the wine Jonathan Didier Pabiot regards as his calling card, drawing on all three soils through the lieux-dits Les Champs de Cris, Les Asserts, Villiers and Les Champs Piot, all densely planted at 10,000 vines per hectare. Yields are held to 30 hl/ha. The winemaking is deliberately intricate: eighty per cent of the crop is fermented and raised in concrete cuve and stainless steel, with twenty per cent barrel-fermented juice blended in, and the wine rests twelve to eighteen months on lees to build texture. Alcohol sits at a moderate 13 per cent.

Drinking well now and worth five years in the cellar. Serve at 10-12°C with grilled fish, roast chicken or goat’s cheese.

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