Qualivin

Importer. Importer of French estates with a webshop, including Domaine du Bouchot from Pouilly-Fumé.

MCMLV 2023: a white that sat three days on skins

Skin contact on sauvignon blanc, from vines planted in 1955. What those 48 to 72 hours do to colour, texture and the grip you feel on your tongue.

Limestone shards with barely any earth on top. What that does to a root system, and why this bottle turns out to be the estate's best buy.

The soil under this Pouilly-Fumé is full of fossilised oyster shells. Not a pun, and it explains why the bottle works so well with oysters.

Eight euros between the cheapest and the dearest. Three biodynamic Pouilly-Fumés by Antoine Gouffier, 2023, tasted side by side on one table.

Prices are what I paid or saw at the time of tasting. No paid listings; how each bottle reached me is stated at the bottom of the article.