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The GILBERT & GAILLARD International Magazine : Make some room in your lounge for WINE REGIONS from around the world
The GILBERT & GAILLARD International Magazine :
Make some room in your lounge for WINE REGIONS from around the world
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BURGUNDY<br />
– VINEYARDS –<br />
Clémence Vandenbroucke sells wines for Domaine Sangouard-Guyot<br />
DOMAINE SANGOUARD-GUYOT:<br />
POUILLY-FUISSÉ, THE STAR APPELLATION<br />
Clémence Vandenbroucke, who markets Pierre-Emmanuel<br />
and Catherine Sangouard-Guyot’s wines, tells us about<br />
the estate. Located in Vergisson, it has 15 hectares of<br />
Chardonnay. Eleven of them are set in Pouilly-Fuissé, in<br />
some ways the region’s star appellation area. The claylimestone<br />
soil, as encapsulated by the Rocks of Solutré and<br />
Vergisson, lends the wines their specific minerality. They<br />
enjoy a long-standing reputation, promoted by negociants<br />
who were quick to successfully market the wines abroad,<br />
particularly in the United States. The style is generally<br />
slightly oakier than Mâconnais wines, and it went down<br />
well with English-speaking imbibers when barrels were<br />
very much in vogue.<br />
Vandenbroucke explains that the estate makes three<br />
different labels. ‘Authentique’ is made in tanks while<br />
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