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The October 2016 Distinguished Cellar Auction, Part II
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"From younger vines and effectively the second label of the Clos des Epeneaux, a 2005 Pommard 1er Cru offers a butcher shop nose and a salty, meaty, gamey palate with wonderful depth and richness. Hints of cassis and blueberry emerge, but certainly in the main this wine is not about fruits and berries. Fine tannins offer unobtrusive support, and the wine finishes with fascinating chalk and mysteriously ore-like mineral character. Young Benjamin Leroux took over in 1999 from Pascal Marchand (who made this estate’s modern reputation), and the wines have never tasted better, nor more ageworthy. The domaine has also continued to grow – through purchase and rental – beyond their famous 13 acre core property, the Clos des Epeneaux. The wines had never been racked when I tasted them – that will only happen when they are assembled for bottling (unfiltered) . . ."
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"From younger vines and effectively the second label of the Clos des Epeneaux, a 2005 Pommard 1er Cru offers a butcher shop nose and a salty, meaty, gamey palate with wonderful depth and richness. Hints of cassis and blueberry emerge, but certainly in the main this wine is not about fruits and berries. Fine tannins offer unobtrusive support, and the wine finishes with fascinating chalk and mysteriously ore-like mineral character. Young Benjamin Leroux took over in 1999 from Pascal Marchand (who made this estate’s modern reputation), and the wines have never tasted better, nor more ageworthy. The domaine has also continued to grow – through purchase and rental – beyond their famous 13 acre core property, the Clos des Epeneaux. The wines had never been racked when I tasted them – that will only happen when they are assembled for bottling (unfiltered) . . ."
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
Produces the world's most revered Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from a mosaic of tiny, terroir-defined climats. Its hierarchy of village, Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards makes site the ultimate expression of quality.
Pommard is a village AOC in Burgundy's Cote de Beaune with noted Premier Crus, producing dark, powerful and tannic Pinot Noir reds of firm structure and earthy depth built for aging.
2005 in Burgundy is a legendary vintage from a near-ideal, dry growing season; both reds and whites are concentrated, structured and superbly balanced, with dense tannins and exceptional long-term aging potential.
A thin-skinned, terroir-sensitive red producing perfumed, silky and elegant wines of red-berry fruit and earthy complexity. It reaches its apogee in Burgundy.