6 Bottles Bouchard Pere & Fils Pommard Premier Cru 2017 750ml

Pinot Noir from Pommard, Cote de Beaune, Côte d'Or, Burgundy, France

Notes from the Winemaker

The chalky and clayey soil colored in red by ferrous oxide gives Pommard its color, solidity and fine aromas. On the nose, fruit aromas coupled with wilder animal notes expressed on an oaky touch. This is a robust, solid wine with a present tannic structure.

Pairs well with red meat in sauce, game, venison, and full-flavored cheeses.

Reviews and Accolades

93 Points/Wine & Spirits
This is a blend of fruit from two estate parcels (Clanlain and Combe), with 20 percent coming from other plots farmed by Bouchard; all of the vines are between 50 and 70 years old. The wine is fresh and tightly built, a powerful young Burgundy that needs patience in a decanter or long aging in bottle to show itself. The oak presence comes first, with sandalwood scents over grapey intensity. Then, as it unpacks, the wine shows the gracious aristocracy of Pommard, a delicate power built on layers of floral tannins and luscious dark fruit.

92 Points/Wine Spectator
This is ripe and juicy, with bright acidity defining the black cherry, plum, oak spice and fruit cake aromas and flavors. Hints of licorice and leather flash on the lingering aftertaste. Drink now through 2033.

90 Points/Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
I underestimated Bouchard's 2017 Pommard 1er Cru just after bottling, and the wine has opened up in the last eight months to present quite a different picture. Revealing a rich bouquet of cherries and wild berries mingled with rich soil tones, smoked meats, spices and violets, it's medium to full-bodied, fleshy and charming, its generous core of sapid fruit framed by ripe tannins. Any asperity that I perceived in the spring has vanished.