Overview
Purchased by the Comte Lafond, an ancestor of the current owner, Baron Patrick de Ladoucette, Château du Nozet and its surrounding vineyards have a reputation for producing the finest Pouilly-Fumé. The vineyards are in Pouilly-Fumé Contrôlée, which includes Pouilly-sur-Loire, Saint-Andelain and Tracy-sur-Loire at the eastern end of the Loire Valley (including the vineyard of the Château du Nozet estate). Both clay and limestone influence the delicate characteristics in Ladoucette Baron de L Pouilly-Fumé.
This Grande Cuvée of Pouilly Fumé is produced exclusively in the best years and from the first pressing of the estate’s grapes.
Tasting Notes
This wine has a pale, brilliant and crystalline gold color with golden highlights. An olfactory expression opening onto the notes of white flowers and exotic fruit but also white fruit (vines peaches). Breathing reveals the fruity aromas of peaches, apricots and the final touch has a complex minerality. On the palate, the attack is frank with a suave roundness which is very seductive enveloped in a vivacity which distinguishes this attack. This wine has a very structured equilibrium with a lovely fattiness in the middle of the palate which prolongs itself agreeably with the favours of white peaches, mango and notes of apricot. The aromatic persistent is particularly intense, the mineral notes at the end of the palate impose themselves with a beautiful length.
