The 2018 Pouilly-Fuissé La Roche is back on form this year, exhibiting attractive aromas of citrus oil, preserved orange, green pear, oatmeal and white flowers. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, satiny and layered, with terrific cut and concentration, chalky dry extract and a long, mineral finish. Could this evolve along the lines of the formidable 1990? Drink 2020-2038.
Generous wood and sulfur-tinged aromas serve as an inauspicious start to what is otherwise potentially a lovely wine. The notably denser medium-bodied flavors brim with plenty of sappy dry extract that imparts a real sense of volume to the vibrant, stony and lingering finish. This is a big and impressively intense P-F that should be reasonably approachable young but reward up to a decade of cellaring as well.
