Pale yellow, bright with silver reflections and aromas of letches, peaches and flowers with a fresh, finesse finish. This wine was awarded gold by the French Ministry of Fisheries as the best companion to sea fish and oysters. King Louis XVI liked the wine so much that in 1773 he allowed winemakers to decorate their barrels with his coat of arms. The name Picpou indicates the sparkling character of the grape, it pricks (pique) the lip (poule). It is also haunted that the name was created because chickens particularly love to pick the fine berries of this variety. But this story goes back more to a wine merchant who enjoyed one, two, five glasses too much while eating a chicken in the brasserie in Pinet and dreaming of the healthy world of French chickens, the French have the most beautiful rooster as their heraldic animal, that must be “Garçon encore une ballon”... well that's how you get pickled ideas even without Langenscheidt - fake news about good Wine!! How was it with the balloon and the coq au vin?