Press review

Parker # 190 (8/1/2010) : 92-93+

From a single parcel below the estate’s home base of Saint Andelain – deeper but still flint-strewn – the Dagueneau 2009 Blanc Fume de Pouilly Buisson Renard smells of peppermint and cassis, with nettle and huckleberry adding pungency and bitterness on the ample, lushly-textured palate. Kiwi, pineapple, and nectarine well-up to banish any thought that this might become austere, and lead to a lusciously juicy finish. This exceptional etude in fruit and herb sublimates any obvious sense of things mineral yet is nonetheless impressively complex.

The property in brief

This cuvee is issued from a plot selection of Sauvignon planted on a flint soil. Originally, this plot was named Buisson Mesnard, but some tasters have made mistake by naming this wine Buisson Renard on their Guide and Didier Dagueneau took a malicious pleasure to renamed this cuvée, after this story, Buison Renard.