Verget Pouilly-Fuisse Les Combes Vieilles Vignes 2024

Verget Pouilly-Fuisse Les Combes Vieilles Vignes 2024

Verget Pouilly-Fuissé Les Combes Vieilles Vignes 2024 is a concentrated, mineral old‑vine Chardonnay from one of Pouilly’s most prized sites, combining generous fruit with marked tension and a very clear sense of terroir. It is a serious, cellar‑worthy white Burgundy that already shows impressive depth and precision.

From vines 70+ years of age in clay-dominant soils, this wine was produced only utilizing the free-run juice. Directly sent to barrel, 25% of which was new, the wine aged 8 months on the fine lees with no racking or batonnage. 5600 bottles produced.

Tasting note

"The 2024 Pouilly-Fuissé Les Combes Vieilles Vignes is the king of the cellar chez Verget this year, and a wine that really transcends the vintage. Offering up notes of white flowers, peach, toasted nuts and spices, framed by a classy touch of reduction, it's medium- to full-bodied, deep and complete, with a multidimensional mid-palate and a long, penetrating finish. As is often the case, this parcel was picked in three successive passages (or "tris"), an approach normally reserved for the wines of Domaine Guffens-Heynen." - WK (94/100)

Vineyard and winemaking

Les Combes is a cool, clay‑limestone hollow at the foot of Vergisson, planted to old Chardonnay vines, many over 50–80 years old, which naturally give low yields and very concentrated fruit. Fermentation is with indigenous yeasts in used French oak barrels, followed by aging on fine lees for extra texture and finesse. In 2024 the cuvée was picked in several passes (“tris”) to capture only the ripest grapes at each pass, and yields are notably down (roughly 35% less than 2023), but balance is excellent, with alcohol around 12.7–13.5% and vibrant acidity.

Tasting note

Appearance
Pale to medium gold, bright and limpid, hinting at both ripeness and freshness.

Nose
Ripe pear, golden apple, white peach and citrus blossom, layered with hazelnut, toasted nuts, honeycomb, white flowers, wet stone and a classy touch of reduction (struck flint/smoky note).

Palate
Medium- to full‑bodied and layered, with a creamy, satiny texture that is tightly framed by a bright mineral line. Flavours of white peach, lemon curd, ripe stone fruit, subtle spice and almond paste unfold across a dense, precise core, with concentration coming from old vines rather than heaviness.

Finish
Long, harmonious and saline, with citrus, chalk and fine, calcareous bitterness stretching the wine out; both freshness and depth are very clear, giving a Côte d’Or‑like sense of structure and seriousness.

Style, aging and positioning

This cuvée marries the concentration of very old vines with the elegance of Vergisson/Pouilly terroir, sitting among the top wines of the Verget range in 2024. It is generous yet finely etched, with power, freshness and strong mineral vibration, and is well suited to cellaring 6–8 years (and likely longer) for added complexity.

Food pairing

Serve with butter‑poached lobster, roasted monkfish, scallops, turbot or other rich white fish, as well as roast chicken, guinea fowl or veal in cream sauce. It will also work beautifully with refined mushroom dishes and aged hard cheeses (Comté, Gruyère, Parmesan) where its acidity and chalky structure can balance richness.