Puy de Dome Pinot Noir 2023

Jancis Robinson MW OBE, writes – 'Hats off to the Cave Saint-Verny co-op in the département of Puy-de-Dôme in the Auvergne in the far north east of France's Massif Central. It's not a region famous for its wines today – although at the end of the 19th century it produced so much wine that Puy-de-Dôme was France's third most important wine-producing département after the Aude and Hérault in the Languedoc. But two of the Cave St-Verny's wines labelled, without hyphens, IGP Puy de Dôme – a Pinot and a Chardonnay – struck me as great bargains recently. Brilliant value French Pinot Noir that runs rings around most Burgundy costing 2/3 times as much, offering great purity of fruit and freshness.