2019 Guffens-Heynen Pouilly-Fuisse Premier Jus

“The 2019 Pouilly-Fuissé 1er Jus has turned out brilliantly, opening up to reveal aromas of peach, apricot, white flowers, barley sugar, clear honey, petrol and wheat toast. Full-bodied, deep and multidimensional, it’s seamless and complete, with a satiny attack and huge mid-palate amplitude that’s supported by incisive acids. Like its Mâcon-Pierreclos counterpart (indeed, a fortiori), it shows some of the characteristics of “passerillage,” as dry, windy conditions at the end of the growing season concentrated sugars and acidities alike, delivering prodigious concentration allied with notably low pH. This is a muscular, chiseled Pouilly-Fuissé from Guffens that’s reminiscent of a modern-day version of his superb 1989s.”