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2018 Maison Pierre Overnoy, Poulsard, Arbois Pupillin

Regular price $525
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2018 Maison Pierre Overnoy, Poulsard, Arbois Pupillin

2018 Maison Pierre Overnoy, Poulsard, Arbois Pupillin

Regular price $525
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Ploussard receives red wax; the grapes are hand-harvested and carefully de-stemmed prior to undergoing a semi-carbonic maceration - traditionally in foudre, though there have been experimentations with concrete eggs in recent years. Often part of the vintage will be held back for further aging, releasing part of the wine after 3-4 years of aging.

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We came to know the wines of Pierre Overnoy in some of the finest French restaurants - they were the bottles in the corner, gathering dust, but were yet somehow "off limits" per the head Sommelier. Even without researching them, they had already attained mythical status. Do a little bit of reading and you'll discover that Overnoy himself was one of the first to readily make what we call "natural wine" - he eschewed the use of sulfur most of all, and created wines that were bursting at the seams with character.

Maison Pierre Overnoy

Emmanuel & Anne Houillon run the Maison Pierre Overnoy estate after several years under Pierre's tutelage, and have only served to further improve on his legacy. We have long loved these wines, so elegant and yet simply presented - historically, all the labels are the same; you just identify the cuvée by the color of the wax! The winery routinely holds back releases until they are perfectly ready to drink.

Chardonnay is sourced from the lieu-dit Viandris, a 1.7 hectare parcel of 50+ year old vines. The white-waxed Chardonnay will be topped up throughout its long aging on the lees in foudre, generally about 4 years.

Yellow-waxed Savagnin Ouillé is direct-pressed and aged in foudre for about 10 years; time, with regular top-ups. The source is a tiny, 50-are marl-soiled plot called Parc. When you see the wine you'll know it, as it is bottled in the 500 mL size, its only indication that it is the true rare pearl of the Overnoy cellars, the most powerful and profound bottling. There will be another Savagnin in 750 mL bottles that will have been in foudre for 4 years' time, also with the yellow wax.

Ploussard receives red wax; the grapes are hand-harvested and carefully de-stemmed prior to undergoing a semi-carbonic maceration - traditionally in foudre, though there have been experimentations with concrete eggs in recent years. Often part of the vintage will be held back for further aging, releasing part of the wine after 3-4 years of aging.

There will be other rare bottlings including a "Cuvée Rosé" which is a fortified wine (with Marc) of equal parts Chardonnay and Savagnin; occasionally a Vin Jaune will occasionally be released.

Meet the Producer

Maison Pierre Overnoy

We came to know the wines of Pierre Overnoy in some of the finest French restaurants - they were the bottles in the corner, gathering dust, but were yet somehow "off limits" per the head Sommelier. Even without researching them, they had already attained mythical status. Do a little bit of reading and you'll discover that Overnoy himself was one of the first to readily make what we call "natural wine" - he eschewed the use of sulfur most of all, and created wines that were bursting at the seams with character.

Emmanuel & Anne Houillon run the Maison Pierre Overnoy estate after several years under Pierre's tutelage, and have only served to further improve on his legacy. We have long loved these wines, so elegant and yet simply presented - historically, all the labels are the same; you just identify the cuvée by the color of the wax! The winery routinely holds back releases until they are perfectly ready to drink.

Chardonnay is sourced from the lieu-dit Viandris, a 1.7 hectare parcel of 50+ year old vines. The white-waxed Chardonnay will be topped up throughout its long aging on the lees in foudre, generally about 4 years.

Yellow-waxed Savagnin Ouillé is direct-pressed and aged in foudre for about 10 years; time, with regular top-ups. The source is a tiny, 50-are marl-soiled plot called Parc. When you see the wine you'll know it, as it is bottled in the 500 mL size, its only indication that it is the true rare pearl of the Overnoy cellars, the most powerful and profound bottling. There will be another Savagnin in 750 mL bottles that will have been in foudre for 4 years' time, also with the yellow wax.

Ploussard receives red wax; the grapes are hand-harvested and carefully de-stemmed prior to undergoing a semi-carbonic maceration - traditionally in foudre, though there have been experimentations with concrete eggs in recent years. Often part of the vintage will be held back for further aging, releasing part of the wine after 3-4 years of aging.

There will be other rare bottlings including a "Cuvée Rosé" which is a fortified wine (with Marc) of equal parts Chardonnay and Savagnin; occasionally a Vin Jaune will occasionally be released.


The Wine Advocate

Wine Advocate

93-95

Exceptionally, I tasted a sample of the red 2018 Arbois Pupillin Ploussard, a bright ruby colored red with an explosive nose of watermelon, raspberries and some smoky meat (pigeon?), which gives it a bit of a funky touch, with something earthy and a note of licorice but following the cleaner and more precise style of the reds of the last few years. It used to take the reds ten years to come around, but the recent vintages can be drunk much earlier. 2018 was a ripe year, and the grapes ripened properly, but the wine manages to keep the freshness, right now aided by some carbonic gas that is still dissolved in the wine. It has energy and tension on the palate, but it's also nicely structured and has ripe tannins that are not as sharp as they can be in some cooler years. This is not yet bottled, but the 2017 was already bottled when I tasted this in May 2019, so this could be bottled in the next six to ten months.

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The Wine Advocate

Wine Advocate

93-95

Exceptionally, I tasted a sample of the red 2018 Arbois Pupillin Ploussard, a bright ruby colored red with an explosive nose of watermelon, raspberries and some smoky meat (pigeon?), which gives it a bit of a funky touch, with something earthy and a note of licorice but following the cleaner and more precise style of the reds of the last few years. It used to take the reds ten years to come around, but the recent vintages can be drunk much earlier. 2018 was a ripe year, and the grapes ripened properly, but the wine manages to keep the freshness, right now aided by some carbonic gas that is still dissolved in the wine. It has energy and tension on the palate, but it's also nicely structured and has ripe tannins that are not as sharp as they can be in some cooler years. This is not yet bottled, but the 2017 was already bottled when I tasted this in May 2019, so this could be bottled in the next six to ten months.