Domaine Jonathan Didier Pabiot

Jonathan is the fifth generation of Pabiot’s to have toiled the soils of Pouilly. His grandfather, Lucien and father, Didier, were principally coopérateurs, but erected a modern cellar above the hamlet of Les Loges in 1990 and began to bottle their own wines. Jonathan has been likened to the great Didier Dageneau, high praise indeed. Having originally dropped out of viticultural collage in favour of a more hands on approach in the vineyards of Domaine Léon Barral, he returned to Les Loges in 2006 and, with 2.5 hectares of vines granted to him by his father, and a further one hectare which he rented, Jonathan produced his first wine. It was in 2011 when both farther and son combined their two enterprises with their vineyards widely stretched across the appellation, encompassing five communes in total: Villiers (Oxfordian marne and small white caillots), Charenton (sable and marne), Tracy (caillots and silex), Saint-Laurent (marne and caillots) and Les Loges (caillots). This variety in soils ensures that there is real diversity in the style of the different cuvéesproduceds and the variation in sites acts as an insurance policy against the perpetual threats of frost and hail.