Pouilly Fume Caillottes 2022 Domaine du Bouchot

Professional reviews

Winespectator (92)

Expressive and complex, with a rush of warm apple, quince and citrus preserves flecked with accents of dried green herbs and verbena. Density builds, with salted brioche and blanched almond notes chiming in, followed by a cleansing jolt of acidity. A pithy grapefruit hint makes for a pleasingly bitter-edged finish, with nice cut.

James Suckling (93)

Ripe citrus fruit, dried apricot and floral character, enriched by a dense layer of smooth minerals on the nose and palate. Medium-bodied with great poise and balance, creating an intense yet at the same time relaxed mouthfeel and a long finish. Classy.

Jancis Robinson (17.50)

A wine like this makes me swallow all the rude things I (sometimes) think about Sauvignon Blanc. It's diaphanous. It's like tasting the moon: glowing white, nacreous. Citrus pith and the cold sweet perfume of night flowers. Crisply defined yet the texture of flowing satin. Quiet lines etched like the whorls of a shell. It's like slender, cool fingers tapping Morse code at the top of your spine – urgent, silent, exquisitely precise. And then the finish is a fern-fringed pool of gentle bitterness. It's stunning.

Vinous (93)

The 2022 Caillottes has real tension despite the ripe vintage. This is clean and pure. There's an orchard fruit flavor with lees-derived pastry notes. Excellent concentration and intensity join substance and structure, perhaps an effect of the low yields due to the dry vintage.

BOW (8.25)