Georges Duboeuf Pouilly-Fuisse Emile Beranger

About Georges Duboeuf Pouilly-Fuisse Emile Beranger

Georges Duboeuf Pouilly-Fuisse Emile Beranger is very complex and shows great finesse, combining white blossom, hazelnut, roasted almond, pear, and lime blossom aromas. A rich, fleshy wine with a long, long finish. Very well made.

For over 200 years, the Béranger family has lived in this part of the hamlet of Pouilly, known in the past as the “Béranger District” in the commune of Solutré. Two tenants are working on Emile Beranger’s 2 hectares. Georges DuBoeuf has been buying the entire production for over 20 years.

About Georges Duboeuf

Georges Duboeuf was born to a family of vineyard owners and grape growers in the Macon region of Southern Burgundy. When his father died, he took over the family business and began producing and bottling his own wines from his family’s vineyards rather than selling to a negociant. Eventually, he would encourage other small family growers throughout the region to do the same and help them in their endeavors through the creation of his mobile bottling truck. This represented a huge shift away from negociant wines that were blends of grapes grown throughout the region to single-estate bottlings that he would then bring to market. He traveled, by bicycle, to local restaurants and eventually to Lyon – the heart of French gastronomy – where it was
put on some of the best restaurant lists. The story goes that Paul Bocuse tasted his whites, purchased them, and said if Georges could make a red as
good as his whites, he would buy that, too. In 1982, Georges Duboeuf brought the first bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau to the U.S. and thus began an annual tradition that would grow into the biggest wine celebration in the world.