Domaine du Roc des Boutires
Pouilly-Fuissé Premier Cru Aux Chailloux
Although close to the hamlet of Pouilly, Pouilly-Fuissé Premier Cru Aux Chailloux lies just north of Pouilly, as the slope turns from east to south-facing. Aux Chailloux was one of 22 vineyard sites in Pouilly-Fuissé promoted to premier cru status in 2020.
Vintage Factsheets
Exclusively coming from the terroir ‘Aux Chailloux’ with clay and limestone soils. The Domaine works with a 0.12 hectare plot of ‘vieilles vignes’ Chardonnay, located at the southern end of Bourgogne, are planted between 250 and 500 meters in altitude, higher than the others AOC from Bourgogne. Thus, they provide both maturity and freshness to the wines.
- Region
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Mâconnais
- Sub-Appellation
- Pouilly-Fuissé Premier Cru AOP
- Varietal Composition
- Chardonnay
- Aging
- 12 months in 30% oak barrels and 70% in stainless steel.
- Alcohol
- 13%
The terroir, with its special clay soil, gives this wine energy and aromatic richness, with fruity, ripe apricot notes that are very ‘salivating’.
Vinous
92 Points
2022
"The 2022 Pouilly-Fuissé Aux Chailloux 1er Cru is an outstanding wine. There is immense precision on the nose that is more malic than you would anticipate given the summer's warmth, fleeting touches of Granny Smiths and Conference pear, a touch of crushed limestone. The palate is underpinned by razor-sharp acidity that renders this a live-wire Pouilly-Fuissé. Very edgy, very saline, so much so that it demands food to accompany it. The most athletic of Roc de Boutires' cuvées."
— Neal Martin, 2024
