2008 Pommard Les Vignots
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Tasting notes
Good deep, bright red. Wild, slightly reduced aromas of dark cherry, spices, smoke and game. Round, supple and sweet, with an almost liqueur-like quality to its red fruit flavors. Benefits from a firming edge of acidity, and enticing notes of minerals, spices and herbs. Lovely village wine.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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The Leroy 2008 Pommard Les Vignots displays a vivacity throughout that is quite vintage-typical but in my experience rare at this address. Smoked meat and rich marrow lend a strikingly carnal cast. Cherry pit and marine minerality lead to a dynamic finishing interchange of invigorating bitterness and salinity against a refined, transparent, and downright refreshing layering of red berry and meat. This ought to be worth following for at least the next dozen years. Lalou Bize-Leroy reports average 2008 Pinot Noir yields of 13 hectoliters per hectare, almost absurdly tiny even by her singular standards. Malos were a bit later than usual but were finished by summer, and the wines bottled – as usual – in December. Yet – also as usual – if their development was thereby in any way stunted, you certainly won’t detect it in the bottle today! The best of these display a sense of transparency; levity; and – even when rich and head-spinningly complex – a sheer sense of refreshment and invigoration that I have seldom encountered in other great wines from these sister estates. (Please note that my account of the complete 2007 red collection at Leroy was published in issue #189.) Importer: Martine’s Wines. Novato, CA; tel. (415) 883-040
About the producer
For many, Domaine Leroy represents the pinnacle of fine Burgundy. Owned and run by the legendary Lalou Bize-Leroy, the domaine in Vosne-Romanée is one strand of the Leroy empire, along with Maison Leroy and Domaine d’Auvenay.