Shows a humus hint in the aroma with lots of fresh herb lemon peel grapefruit macadamia nut and floral notes. Long and very stony on the finish with herb and fleur de sel notes that refuse to quit. Hangs together perfectly leaving a mouthwatering impression. Drink now through 2012. 1600 cases made. -JM

The 2005 Blanc Fume de Pouilly Pur Sang smells alluringly of lime ripe honeydew melon and lily-of-the-valley. Palpably dense and chalky it is nevertheless far more generous today than Dageuneau's "Renard" bottling offering a Margarita-like salt-tinged lime and lusciously ripe melon fruit personality underlain by persistent diverse and subtle mineral suggestions and finishing with a length and poise that do not in any obvious way betray Dagueneau's use of new wood.