2016 Pommard Les Epenots
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The 2016 Pommard Clos des Epenots 1er Cru is a very pretty, effusive wine. A burst of sweet red cherry fruit, blood orange, mint, white pepper and cinnamon lends lovely aromatic brightness and lift to this mid-weight Pommard. Elegant and classy to the core, the 2016 is an absolute delight today, but it has plenty of potential as well. This restrained, understated Pommard is all class.
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Neal Martin
Jeb Dunnuck
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Slightly dark ruby/purple-colored, the 2016 Pommard Clos Des Epenots 1Er Cru offers a more backward, reticent bouquet of dark fruits, ground herbs, earth, and spice, with a terrific crushed rock and gunpowder-like minerality. Rich, medium-bodied, nicely concentrated, and textured, it needs 2-4 years of bottle age and will keep for over a decade.
The 2016 Pommard Clos des Epenots 1er Cru offers a mixture of red and blue fruit on the nose, floral with hints of pressed violets and iris, quite pure and demonstrating very well integrated oak. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe, succulent tannin that insistently grips. Just a slight chewiness towards the finish and yet there is a satisfying degree of elegance and poise throughout this Pommard. Excellent. Tasted blind at the 2016 Burgfest tasting.
Slightly dark ruby/purple-colored, the 2016 Pommard Clos Des Epenots 1Er Cru offers a more backward, reticent bouquet of dark fruits, ground herbs, earth, and spice, with a terrific crushed rock and gunpowder-like minerality. Rich, medium-bodied, nicely concentrated, and textured, it needs 2-4 years of bottle age and will keep for over a decade.