The term "fumé" or "smoked" has two implications: one linked to the grape, the other to the land...
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The Pouilly Fumé grape is derived from the Sauvignon blanc, with egg-shaped berries in tight clusters resembling tit's eggs. When mature these berries are covered in a smoke-coloured, grey bloom, which explains why the Pouilly wine growers talk amongst themselves about Blanc fumé (smoked white) to describe the Sauvignon grape or wines produced from it. |
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The word fumé also refers to the incomparable, universally-recognized aromas and bouquet (or fumet - smokey aroma - the famous gun flint aroma, released by rubbing two flints together), which comes from the outstanding land of Pouilly/Loire vineyards. It is this sweet-smelling land that the poet Georges Blanchard has described so perfectly in the local Nevers patois, in a poem entitled "L' vin d' Pouilly" :
Pouilly, si ton nom vagabonde
Jusque dans les pays pardus,
Si t'es connu du bout du Monde,
Té l'doué au jus d'tes pieds tordus.
Té l'doué au soleil, à la terre,
A tout s'qui dounne à ton raisin
Un sacré foutu caractère
Qui I'fait différent d' son vouésin.
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