2018 Pouilly Fuisse Clos des Quarts

Offering up aromas of pear, buttered orchard fruit, citrus oil and toasted almonds, the 2018 Pouilly-Fuissé Clos des Quarts is medium to full-bodied, satiny and enveloping, with good depth at the core but a rather tart, poorly integrated spine of acidity, which is a characteristic it shares with Merlin's own Pouilly-Fuissé bottlings—and its 2017 counterpart. The debut releases of this revived estate were promising, so I'm still inclined to give this the benefit of the doubt, but we'll see how it evolves.