Nicolas Gaudry Pouilly-Fume Les Champs de Cri 2025

This Pouilly-Fumé comes from a single 2.3-hectare parcel in Les Loges, a site long known locally for the appellation’s most elegant and longest-lived wines. Nicolas Gaudry, a sixth-generation grower, runs the estate with his wife Sandy. He took over this parcel from his friend Marc Deschamps, a well-respected grower, and kept its bottling going.

The wine is 100% Sauvignon Blanc from vines around 70 years old at the top of the hill, rooted in limestone-clay soils known locally as Caillottes and Barrois. The style is restrained and mineral, with notes of bitter orange, jasmine and beeswax over a firm limestone backbone.

It’s delicious now with goat cheese, scallops or roast chicken, and it will keep developing for five to ten years.