Domaine Christian Salmon Clos des Criots Pouilly Fume 2005

For our aperitif, we opened this Pouilly-Fume from Christian Salmon,who also produces Sancerres. The bouquet seemed quite locked, but did slowly open to reveal very soft fruit, with flint and mineral dominating. On the palate again fruit was quite suppressed, with mostly dry minerals, some citrus and soft smoky characters. Finished very elegantly and dry. Overall quite a lovely and austere low-fruit/high mineral expression of sauvignon, which I tend to prefer.
50+4+12+18+8 = 92/100