La Soufrandière Pouilly-Vinzelles Les Longeays 2017

La Soufrandière Pouilly-Vinzelles Les Longeays comes from just over half a hectare on deeper soil than the family's Les Quarts, which brings the fruit to ripeness earlier.

Pouilly-Vinzelles is a compact appellation next to Pouilly-Fuissé, worked here by the Bret family, whose grandfather bought La Soufrandière in 1947 and whose grandsons took the vines over in 2000 and began bottling rather than sending the crop to the co-operative. The estate has been certified organic and biodynamic since 2006, with conversion begun in 2003, and is ploughed by horse. Les Longeays is a 0.58-hectare parcel at about 250 metres, facing south-east mid-slope on a twenty per cent gradient, on clay and limestone rich in red iron oxide over Bajocian rock, with vines of around thirty-seven years. Its greater soil depth is why it ripens ahead of Les Quarts year after year. Whole bunches are pressed slowly, fermented on wild yeasts, then aged eleven months in used barrels and six months in tank.

Good for around seven years. Serve at 10-12°C with roast chicken, richer fish or comté.

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