Château Fuissé Tête De Cuvée. A gem from the benchmark estate of Pouilly Fuissé

Château Fuissé Tête De Cuvée Pouilly Fuissé (AC) 2022, 13.5% ABV.

€41.95 O’Briens Wine

"From the benchmark estate of Pouilly Fuissé"

The colour is a limpid yellow with green tints. Lime and tropical fruits head up the aromatics. White fruit (lime again), faint almond notes, and a subtle minerality feature on the smooth and silky palate. Its time in oak (two-thirds of the wine is aged in oak, with 20% of that new oak) helps give it a rich and complex flavour profile. The great length confirms that you have one of the best Chardonnays in your glass.

An unmissable exceptional wine, say importers O’Briens: “Easily one of the most keenly priced fine Burgundies you can get your hands on today.”  O’Briens are not on their own here as the wine is widely and highly regarded: “This is a brilliant blend of the appellation” and “Classic, fresh and precise with pleasant density” are other plaudits.

The Pouilly-Fuissé appellation is known for producing some of the best white wines in the world. It is the home of the finest white wines of southern Burgundy's Maconnais district. They are produced exclusively from Chardonnay grapes grown locally. According to Wine-Searcher.com, the typical Pouilly-Fuissé wine is full-bodied, ripe and relatively elegant, with the best examples rivalling the finer wines of the Côte de Beaune. 

Ernest Hemingway was quite a fan of Burgundy, especially the Macon (where Château Fuissé is located). In  A Moveable Feast (1964), Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway went on the tear: "We had a marvellous lunch from the hotel at Lyon, an excellent truffled roast chicken, delicious bread and white Mâcon wine and Scott was very happy when we drank the white Maconnais at each of our stops. At Mâcon I had bought four more bottles of excellent wine which I uncorked as we needed them.”

There are quite a few suggestions for food pairings on the Vin De Bourgogne website, including patés and terrines, Brie, sushi, chicken in cream sauce, grilled chicken breast, and veal in the sauce. The website is well worth visiting.