New wine

Finally starting to move off the Villa Maria Sauvignon Blanc which has served us well over the past few years, having been introduced to it by the barmaid at the Tooting Broadway Wetherspoon's. More precisely, to pay a bit more than the £10 or so we pay for a bottle of Villa Maria. One of the many wines to be had from Marlborough in New Zealand.

The wine

So over the past couple of days we have been trying a Pouilly-Fumé from Majestic called Jean-Vincent. Sufficiently artisanale to have a cork rather than a screw top, rather unusual for the class of wine which we usually buy. Notwithstanding, we rather liked it and will probably buy some more in due course.

The wrong domaine

The right domaine

So who is Jean-Vincent? As is often the case, far easier to find people who sell the stuff than the people who make it. I thought I was getting there with Domaine Jean-Marc Vincent, but eventually decided that they were far too deep into Chardonnay and anyway not in the right village. Next, Google tells me that Jean-Vincent is a rather a father (Jean-Claude) and son (Vincent) team with the family name of Chatelain, operating the Domaine Chatelain in eastern France. Which gmaps knows all about, placing them just east of the A77, between Tracy-sur-Loire and Pouilly-sur-Loire. With the former being the place mentioned at reference 1. With this domaine probably being the right one.

So not an invention of the people at Majestic after all. And not to be confused with Pouilly-Fuissé which is something else altogether. Starting to get the hang of it all...

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/06/topped-up.html.