Anyone ever tried Gitton Pouilly Fume?

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We have a bottle of 2000 les Chanteallouetes, and I really liked it quite a bit. Kind of a Rosenthal style wine, classic. Lots of tea, herbs, quince. A nice change from cat pee. Old school label too.
 
Yeah, I'm confused. It is listed on the Gitton site as Chasselas. It does have that PF typicite, definitely not Sancerre...and I don't know Chasselas well enough to form an opinion.

But I like it.
 
Looks like the INAO distinguishes "Pouilly-sur-Loire" from "Blanc fumé de Pouilly"/"Pouilly-Fumé," with the former being Chasselas-based with optionally some SB (called "blanc fumé" there) and the latter being only SB:

Art. 2. - Les vins ayant droit à l'appellation contrôlée " Pouilly-sur-Loire " devront provenir des cépages suivants, à l'exclusion de tous autres :

Chasselas avec ou sans mélange de blanc fumé.

Les vins ayant droit aux appellations contrôlées " Blanc fumé de Pouilly ou Pouilly-fumé " devront provenir du cépage suivant, à l'exclusion de tous autres : blanc fumé.
 
I'm wondering if they just made a mistake on their website. The bottle is labelled as Pouilly Fume.
 
Huh, when I look at their website, they claim it is SB.

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The English version lists different info. They must have made a mistake.

Mystery solved! Maybe we should tell them.
 
Jacqueline Friedrich's Loire book (1996) indicates Chasselas was allowed in Pouilly Fume. So your bottle may have been correctly labeled. Technical incompetence means I won't be posting the relevant pages here.
 
originally posted by Tom Glasgow:
Jacqueline Friedrich's Loire book (1996) indicates Chasselas was allowed in Pouilly Fume. So your bottle may have been correctly labeled. Technical incompetence means I won't be posting the relevant pages here.
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Interesting, Mark. Thanks for sharing.

I tend to like Chasselas better as a table grape than a wine grape. Muscat, too, but for different reasons....

Not even Gonon's chasselas really does it for me.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Interesting, Mark. Thanks for sharing.

I tend to like Chasselas better as a table grape than a wine grape. Muscat, too, but for different reasons....

Not even Gonon's chasselas really does it for me.
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I agree on all counts. There's nothing like ripe Muscat table grapes, particularly Muscat of Hamburg and Italia (a big, juicy white cross - Muscat of Hamburg x Bicane).

However, in the 70s people in France would often open a dry, Alsatian muscat before dinner. They were quite nice, as is Nikolaihof's. But Muscat wines can be a bit cloying.

I do have fond memories of drinking Fendant. I used to work occasionally in the Valais for an Italian company; the Italians would always snicker when the sommelier opened the screw-capped bottles (the Swiss have been using them for decades). Sure the wines are pretty innocuous, but refreshing while you are looking over the menu. (Arneis serves a similar function in Piemonte.)
 
I love that book, it might be my favorite wine book actually.

So it sounds like maybe it's SB? Still don't think we have the mystery solved. She says there that Chasselas SB can only be PsL.

Ah, the wonderful mysteries.

Now that I really think about it I think it was SB. It reminded me of the Ladoucette PF. But hey, if I was wrong, wouldn't be the first time terroir trumped varietal in our world, eh?
 
originally posted by BJ:

Now that I really think about it I think it was SB. It reminded me of the Ladoucette PF. But hey, if I was wrong, wouldn't be the first time terroir trumped varietal in our world, eh?
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*cough*

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by BJ:

Now that I really think about it I think it was SB. It reminded me of the Ladoucette PF. But hey, if I was wrong, wouldn't be the first time terroir trumped CENSORED in our world, eh?
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*cough*

Mark Lipton
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Right. Politburo has been dozing a bit. Or maybe they should automatically substitute for the noun.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Interesting, Mark. Thanks for sharing.

I tend to like Chasselas better as a table grape than a wine grape. Muscat, too, but for different reasons....

Not even Gonon's chasselas really does it for me.
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Comrade Brézème makes a nice pet-nat that is mostly Chasselas.
 
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