Description
Thomas Pico was born and raised in Courgis, the village where he lives and works, leaving only to study viticulture and enology in Beaune. He returned in 2004, establishing Domaine Pattes Loup a year later with eight hectares of vines inherited from his family, and he soon won a richly deserved reputation as one of the brightest rising stars in Chablis’s firmament. Pico’s priority is to achieve moderate yields and full maturity. He picks rather later than most of his neighbors, judging the moment to harvest by flavor and appearance rather than laboratory analyses. And the trend to longer and longer maturation on the lees continues, facilitated by new material: most recently an impressive array of new foudres.
Tasting notes
Stylish and extremely complex on the nose, notes of ripe lemon and citrus jam, freshness of mint and pompous mineral character along with tobacco. On the palate there is the classic – a la Chablis – rigour but with dense texture and depth of fruit, in a yin-yang type of interconnection that leads to perfect balance.
