Grape varietyPinot Noir.
Tasting notesColour: An intense, very deep, dark ruby. A beautiful colour with great concentration.
Nose: A lovely bouquet of red and black fruit, dominated by blackberry jam notes.
Palate: A powerful wine, with firm tannins, black fruit flavors like blackcurrant, blackberry and just a little hint of alcohol at the end, which, together with the tannins, offer an impression of both power and freshness.
Wine and food pairingPairs very well with game ; wild board or venison in wine sauce are perfect matches. And then when the wine has aged a few years in the bottle, in 7 or 8 years drink with cheese.
Serving temperatureServe at around 15-16°C. (59-60°F.).
Ageing potentialPommard wines have a reputation for being powerful and generous and can age for a very long time and you will be able to keep this vintage for a good 10 years.
OriginPommard is one of the most famous villages in the Côte de Beaune, located 5 km south of Beaune on the Route des Grands Crus. The vineyard extends over 322 hectares and produces only red wines, with a proportion of 36% rated 1er Cru.
The climat “Les Grands Épenots” is a parcel of around 10 hectares (25 acres) located in the village of Pommard. The name « Epenots comes from « Thorns » and back in the day there were most likely Hawthorn bushes growing here.
Vinification and maturingGrapes were hand-harvested and sorted when they arrived at the winery. Only some of the bunches were de-stemmed, so for this wine have 50% whole cluster fermentation. The grapes were then put into the fermenting vats for alcoholic fermentation with punching down of the cap twice a day and pumping over every 3 days, to extract as much as possible from the grapes. Once the fermentation finished, the wine was put into barrels (French oak only) for 14 months, with new barrels and of barrels which had already been used once