Subtle and restrained with gentle pear and orange blossom. There's an oily richness to the stone fruit flavours with a citrus freshness.

Here too a more restrained nose is ripe but cool with its fresh aromas of pear, apple, tangerine and lemon-lime nuances. There is better richness to the slightly bigger and more concentrated medium-bodied flavors that deliver solid length on the saline-inflected, clean and dry finish. This delicious effort will need to develop better depth to merit the upper end of my projected range.

The 2022 Pouilly-Fuissé Tête de Cuvée is raised 60% in oak barrels and the rest in tank, bottled at the end of 2023. This cuvée includes some Premier Crus, including Combettes, which were not bottled separately this year. It has a winsome nose with mint-tinged citrus fruit that opens with gusto in the glass. The palate is well-balanced with a fresh entry. It's spicy with stem ginger and lemongrass towards the lively finish. Maybe it is not the most refined Pouilly-Fuissé, but there is commendable energy in the context of the growing season.