Patrice Moreux Corty Artisan Pouilly-Fumé Caillottes 2022

Decanter

This is showing the ripe fruit of the warm 2022 vintage, coming over as quite tropical with some mango, pineapple and Sorrento lemon notes. Yet despite the ripeness the wine retains excellent freshness, in part thanks to its delicious texture: chalky, plush and chewy, with ample space to the wine in the mouth, and silky on the finish. Generous while also being mineral and fine.

James Suckling

An expressive and elegant Pouilly-Fume with the cassis and flinty character we associate with this appellation. Good length and harmony on the bright medium-bodied palate, but not as stony as the best examples of this appellation.

Decanter

This complex wine is a world away from many fruit-forward New World Sauvignon Blancs. It has an incredible sense of place, with smoky, flinty, mineral character from the limestone-rich soils. Restrained and textural, it's serious and food-friendly, and would be a perfect match for shellfish or smoked fish.

Winewherever, Rasmus Christensen

Særdeles fyldig, cremet og næsten smøragtig i munden. Blomstereng, færsken, citron lemonade og grønne bolsjer vælter rundt på smagsløgene. I det hele taget en voluminøs og ekspresiv vin der stadigvæk holder godt med nerve og friskhed.

Robert Parker

For the first time aged in a 60-hectoliter foudre, the 2021 Pouilly-Fumé Caillottes Corty Artisan opens with an intense, dense and mineral bouquet that indicates remarkable complexity and depth. Fresh and elegant on the palate, this is a full-bodied, textured and tensioned Pouilly with fine tannins and saline acidity, a complex that carries this intense and mouth-filling wine from stony limestone soils to a long and aromatic yet most of all structured, saline and sustainable finish. Excellent indeed. The 250-year-old French oak is palatable only after you taste the enormously pure Silex, but it gives the wine more texture and mouthfeel. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in March 2023.

Houlberg

5 Thumbs Up. Duftmæssigt er der stikkelsbær, brændeælder, melon, hyld, ananas, lidt nødder, blomstervand, solbærblade, grapefrugt, let komposteret græs, mandarinskal ... ikke helt klar og ren, men med en olieret og tør fylde. I munden er vinen cremet med lidt nødder, små bitre noter, lemon, grape, grillede citroner, en krydret syre og virker sådan lidt olieret, tæt og med en flintet, kalket mineralitet, som bløder lidt op og giver vinen en rank blødhed ... hvis det giver mening. (vurderet ved en tilbudspris på kr 169,95)

Wine Enthusiast

Fermented using natural yeasts, this wine is steely from the flint soil and taut with herbal crispness. The wine is still young, tight and waiting to open up over the next few months.

Jancis Robinson

There's an almost marine intensity to this, like sea-glass pebbles dropped into a rough, hand-fashioned clay mug of dried-orange, wakame seaweed and nettle tea. Grapefruit tucked into dune-grass green. It has density and lime-leaf texture, and – always the mark of a truly outstanding white wine – is as complex and balanced at room temperature as it is cold. No hurry to drink it, although it would be hard to resist right now.