Notes of peach, pear, orange oil, white flowers and toasted nuts preface the 2019 Pouilly-Fuissé, a medium to full-bodied, ample and lively wine that's pure and penetrating. As usual, it derives from a multitude of small parcels within the commune of Chaintré.- WK

Romain Cornin, based in the village of Chaintré in Macon, has been producing organically at this 10ha estate since 2000. The vines were planted between 1909 and 1965 with oak being used more sparingly than in many Pouilly-Fuissés. The resulting wine has an intriguing, floral and herbal nose, and although quite plush on the palate, there is plenty of drive and energy here with restrained oak and complex flavours of fennel and aniseed, balancing some tropical notes. (Drink between 2021-2023)

Mainly from Chaintre, the 2019 Pouilly-Fuisse has a perfumed bouquet with yellow flowers and touches of grapefruit and nectarine, generous but nicely delineated. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, light spiced with touches of stem ginger and fennel towards the finish. Very long aftertaste here, this Pouilly-Fuisse should give a decade's worth of drinking pleasure. By Neal Martin on June 2021