Didier Dagueneau Etc 2019 750ml

The Domaine’s only wine that is not terroir- or soil-specific, this is instead produced from the fruit of four vineyards. Two are plots situated away from the Saint-Andelain hill: one a parcel of 15- to 20-year-old vines on flinty-clay soils; the other in the lieu-dit of Les Coques on limestone/marl (white clay) soil. This fruit was blended with young-vine parcels from Le Bois de Saint-Andelain itself.

This is always the Domaine’s most direct and accessible expression of Pouilly-Fumé. It is also a wine that has improved dramatically under the direction of Louis-Benjamin Dagueneau and now comes far closer to the other wines in the range in quality and class. It was fermented in a mix of new and three- to four-year-old barrels and then matured in both wood and tank. It’s a layered and creamy Dagueneau with white peach and ripe pear fruit, some daisy florals, and gently nutty, lees-derived complexity.