More subtle wood influence sets off the reduced though clearly ripe nose. Otherwise there is excellent focus and intensity to the racy and well-detailed flavors that flash a hint of bitter lemon character on the chiseled, focused and lingering finale. This too is lovely.

Outstanding

The 2016 Pouilly-Fuissé Les Combettes offers up pretty aromas of white flowers, ripe citrus and almond paste. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, elegantly satiny and tangy, with good concentration and length. It's a pure, tensile bottling from a cooler, stonier site that ferments and matures in neutral wood.

Pungent aromas of wood and residual fermentation scents make the nose hard to evaluate. More interesting are the dense, powerful and sappy medium-bodied flavors that are tautly muscular and intensely citrusy on the impressively long finish where a touch of warmth slowly emerges. As is usually the case, this is the most 'full-on' wine in the range and while it doesn't offer much refinement, it is impressive in its fashion.

Outstanding

The 2016 Pouilly-Fuissé Les Brûlés is a richer, ampler wine than the Combottes, wafting from the glass with notes of musky peach, citrus blossom and a spicy framing of new oak. On the palate, it's full-bodied, deep and foursquare, with good tangy acids and a saline finish despite its scale and power. It's matured in 100% new wood, but it has digested it remarkably well.

Elegant, cool and mildly exotic aromas speak of discreet but not imperceptible wood, lemon zest, spice and plenty of floral elements. The racy, intense and beautifully well-delineated flavors possess good minerality and detail as well as very good power on the overtly saline-inflected and impressively persistent finish where the wood telegraphed by the nose reemerges. Definitely one to consider.

Outstanding

Aromas of Meyer lemon, orange blossom, delicately musky peach, honeycomb and wheat toast introduce the 2016 Pouilly-Fuissé Le Clos, a full-bodied, multidimensional wine with terrific depth and concentration at the core, balanced by succulent acids and concluding with a long, perfumed finish. It's similar in scale to the Brûlées, but it's simultaneously more intense and more controlled; it's also the most elegant of the Château Fuissé's wines.