Pouilly-Fuissé, Mâconnais
Marcel Couturier
First estate vintage 2005
Domaine Marcel Couturier works the southern Mâconnais from the commune of Fuissé, with Marcel now joined by his daughter Cladie and son Auxence. The estate's eleven hectares of Chardonnay lie across a geological fault, so several different soils meet within a small area, and many of the vines are well over seventy years old. Couturier is one of the few estate bottlers in the tiny appellation of Pouilly-Loché, and farms certified organic and biodynamic, with cover crops, home-made compost and poultry in the rows. In the cellar the wines are picked by hand, fermented with native yeasts and raised in mostly used barrels without bâtonnage. They are pure, fresh and firmly structured, southern Burgundy with serious ambition.
The Indent Offer.
Our pre-arrival offer is open. Under the en primeur system you reserve the wines before they reach Australia, and in return we hold them at heavily reduced indent prices for pre-payment.
To secure your order now, you can purchase the wines below directly through the online store. Alternatively, you may use our 2026 Indent Order Request Form, where you can choose wines from any producer on this shipment in one place. As quantities are limited, submitted order request forms are filled on a first-in, first-served basis. However you order, we will hold your bottles at the indent price, with payment required before the wines arrive in August, and confirm pick up or delivery once the container lands.
Email: store@lamontscott.com.au | Phone: 9385 0666
Available now at indent pricing. Quantities are limited and orders are confirmed on a first-come basis.
2023 Pouilly-Fuisse Clos Scelles
Indent price: $61.00 per bottle
Clos Scelles is the grandest wine of the range, a blend of old parcels in Fuisse and Chaintre on shale and deep clay, with vines up to ninety years old. This is Pouilly-Fuisse with real ambition: broad yet tightly structured, stone fruit and hazelnut framed by a firm, saline line, the kind of southern-Burgundy white that closes the gap on the Cote d'Or. Give it a few years.
2023 Macon Aux Scelles
Indent price: $36.00 per bottle
Domaine Marcel Couturier works the southern Maconnais from Fuisse, certified organic and biodynamic, with daughter Cladie and son Auxence now alongside Marcel. The vines sit on a geological fault, so several soils meet in a small space. This Macon is the freshest expression: picked by hand, fermented wild and raised in old barrels, all orchard fruit, lemon and a chalky lift. An honest, unforced introduction to a serious grower.
2023 Pouilly-Loche
Indent price: $59.00 per bottle
Pouilly-Loche is the smallest village appellation in southern Burgundy, a near neighbour of Pouilly-Fuisse with a fraction of the renown, and Couturier is one of only a handful of estates to bottle it. From east-facing parcels on heavy clay-limestone, this is the structured, architectural side of the Maconnais: firm and serious, citrus and stone wrapped around a mineral core. A white that drinks like it costs more.
2023 Macon-Loche Longues Terres
Indent price: $40.00 per bottle
Longues Terres comes from vines over thirty years old around Loche, on a thin clay-limestone layer over hard rock. Made without additions and aged in seasoned barrels, it is vivacious and pure: white peach, citrus and a saline snap, with more depth and persistence than its modest billing suggests. The family has shown bottles a decade on still singing, so there is no rush.
93 points, Charles Curtis MW, Decanter “This delicious wine is the flagship for this delightful biodynamic domaine, offering aromas of ripe pear and Mirabelle plum with...”
“This delicious wine is the flagship for this delightful biodynamic domaine, offering aromas of ripe pear and Mirabelle plum with notes of white flowers, spice and cream. The texture is dense and sensuous, and the wine lingers pleasantly on the palate. The grapes are from 3.5ha planted in marl soils over a limestone bedrock; the old and young vines are farmed and fermented separately, then blended after ageing, mostly in used barrels.”
2023 Pouilly-Loche Vieilles Vignes
Indent price: $63.00 per bottle
This comes from the domaine's oldest vines around Loche, close to ninety years of age, and is made only in vintages that warrant it. The rest of the time the fruit disappears into the village wine, so its appearance is a marker of a good year. Expect concentration and quiet power, layers of orchard and citrus fruit over a long, mineral spine. Built to reward the cellar.
2023 Pouilly-Loche Le Bourg
Indent price: $67.00 per bottle
Le Bourg is a walled Couturier monopole of eighty-year-old vines on almost pure clay, where the limestone has long since dissolved away. The old vines, touched by the court-noue virus, give tiny berries and minute yields, and the wine shows it: concentrated and deep, with outsized flavour for the appellation and the structure to age. A rare, single-vineyard Maconnais worth seeking out.
Need help choosing? For allocations, mixed cases or advice on cellaring, call the Cottesloe team or email store@lamontscott.com.au.