Domaine Tinel-Blondelet

La Chaumièreaux sits in the heart of the Pouilly-Fumé appellation on the right bank of the Loire, and the Tinel and Blondelet families have worked vines in the area across multiple generations. The current estate operates under the combined Tinel-Blondelet name and is run by Annick Tinel-Blondelet as the current generation of the family. The decision to bottle both Pouilly-Fumé and a small Sancerre line from left-bank parcels gives the estate the unusual ability to work both sides of the Loire seriously, in the pattern shared with Michel Redde and a few other right-bank houses. The estate's identity is anchored in the parcellary work across the three principal Pouilly-Fumé soils.

• La Chaumièreaux sits in the heart of the Pouilly-Fumé appellation on the right bank of the Loire
• Tinel and Blondelet families have worked vines in the area across multiple generations
• Operates as Domaine Tinel-Blondelet under Annick Tinel-Blondelet as the current generation
• Bottles both Pouilly-Fumé and a small Sancerre line from left-bank parcels

Annick Tinel-Blondelet runs viticulture, vinification, and the commercial side of the estate at family scale. The cellar approach is traditional and patient: handpicked fruit, native-yeast fermentations on the upper cuvées, longer lees contact on the parcellary line, and partial barrel raising on the older-vine selections. The estate has stayed family-scale and parcellary rather than chasing a larger négociant-domaine model, and the wines are sold through a tight network of European importers and serious restaurant trade. The house style is clear and terroir-driven, with each cuvée intentionally built to give a clean read of its source soil rather than to blend across the appellation.

• Annick Tinel-Blondelet handles viticulture, vinification, and commercial sides at family scale
• Traditional, patient cellar: handpicked fruit, native ferments on upper cuvées, longer lees, partial barrel on older-vine selections
• Stayed family-scale and parcellary rather than chasing a larger négociant-domaine model
• Clear, terroir-driven house style with each cuvée built to give a clean read of its source soil

The estate covers approximately seventeen hectares of vines, the bulk on the right bank in the Pouilly-Fumé AOC around La Chaumièreaux and adjacent communes, with a small holding on the left bank in the Sancerre appellation. The Pouilly-Fumé holdings span the three principal soils of the appellation: silex (clay with embedded flint, which gives the gunflint pierres-à-fusil character that defines Pouilly-Fumé at its most distinctive), calcaires (calcareous clay, which gives more roundness and palate weight), and Kimmeridgian marl. The Sancerre holding gives access to the appellation's left-bank style. The parcellary cuvée line draws selectively from these soils to give each bottling its own character.

• Approximately seventeen hectares of vines, the bulk on the right bank in Pouilly-Fumé
• Small holding on the left bank in Sancerre gives access to the appellation's left-bank style
• Pouilly-Fumé holdings span silex (flint-clay), calcaires (calcareous clay), and Kimmeridgian marl
• Parcellary cuvée line draws selectively from these soils to give each bottling its own character

The portfolio is built around the parcellary cuvée line. The village Pouilly-Fumé draws from the broader soil mix and is vinified in stainless steel for clean, mineral early drinking. Genêtin is a single-soil bottling from older-vine parcels with longer lees and partial barrel; L'Arrêt Buffatte is the estate's flint-driven upper cuvée from the silex parcels, with the gunflint pierres-à-fusil character of the appellation at its most distinctive. Pierre de Pierre is the Sancerre-side bottling from the small left-bank holding, giving the estate's lineup a clean read of both appellations from the same cellar. A small Pouilly-sur-Loire Chasselas may appear in some vintages, in keeping with the right-bank tradition of maintaining the twin appellation.

• Village Pouilly-Fumé from the broader soil mix, vinified in stainless steel for clean, mineral early drinking
• Genêtin is a single-soil older-vine cuvée with longer lees and partial barrel
• L'Arrêt Buffatte is the flint-driven upper cuvée from silex parcels, with gunflint pierres-à-fusil character
• Pierre de Pierre is the Sancerre-side bottling from the small left-bank holding

Tinel-Blondelet occupies a clear position in modern Pouilly-Fumé. The estate sits in the upper-middle tier of the appellation, distinct from the cult-tier Didier Dagueneau and from the larger Michel Redde and Château de Tracy operations, while keeping a clean parcellary identity and the ability to bottle both Pouilly-Fumé and Sancerre seriously from the same cellar. The parcellary cuvée line gives a clean read across the three principal Pouilly soils, and L'Arrêt Buffatte is one of the more accessible flint-driven Pouilly-Fumés in the upper tier of the appellation. For buyers and students, the estate is a useful reference for the parcellary terroir map of Pouilly-Fumé alongside the more established houses.

• Upper-middle tier of Pouilly-Fumé, distinct from cult-tier Dagueneau and the larger Redde and Tracy operations
• Ability to bottle both Pouilly-Fumé and Sancerre seriously from the same cellar, through left-bank holdings
• Parcellary cuvée line gives clean reads across the three principal Pouilly-Fumé soils
• L'Arrêt Buffatte is one of the more accessible flint-driven Pouilly-Fumés in the upper tier of the appellation