Nicolas Gaudry Pouilly-Fumé Les Vignes de Berge 2024 Style_Bourbon Black Oxford

Black Oxford

The 2021 vintage was near perfect — early rain balanced the season

higher Drôme provençale corner of the Côtes du Rhône

Native yeast fermentation and malolactic fermentation in barrel

Saumur came through it well

Nicolas Gaudry Pouilly-Fumé Les Vignes de Berge 2024 Style_Bourbon Black OxfordThe Land Pouilly Fume is Sancerre's mirror image across the Loire, the same Sauvignon Blanc grown on the opposite bank, yet it lives in Sancerre's shadow. The region's name comes from the smoky, flinty character its silex soils can give, but Les Vignes de Berge grows on something different: Kimmeridgian marl, the stony limestone and clay soil the locals call terres blanches, the same geological formation that runs beneath Chablis. That marl, packed