CHÂTEAU LÉOVILLE POYFERRÉ 2ème Cru Classé Saint Julien 2005 vs POMMARD 1er Cru Épenots Domaine Nicolas Rossignol 2020
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. POMMARD 1er Cru Épenots Domaine Nicolas Rossignol 2020 currently starts £1.00 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £172.50 | £171.50 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Style | Other | Other |
| Grape | Merlot, Cab Sauv, Cab Franc | Pinot Noir |
| ABV | 13.5% | 13.5% |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
| Where to buy |
CHÂTEAU LÉOVILLE POYFERRÉ 2ème Cru Classé Saint Julien 2005
The 2005 Léoville Poyferré has quite a perfumed and minty bouquet, a common trait across many of the Left Bank '05s. Firm tannins frame plenty of tarry black fruit on the boldly styled palate. The 2005 is fresh but a little more tannic than the wines made nowadays. Dense and a little sinewy on the finish, this will certainly require decanting if broached now.
POMMARD 1er Cru Épenots Domaine Nicolas Rossignol 2020
(from both Grands and Petits Epenots with some vines that are 116 years of age; 90% whole clusters). A cool, restrained and equally elegant nose is overtly floral with its ripe aromas of dark berry liqueur, earth and pretty spice elements. The venerable old vines are very much in evidence thanks to the seemingly endless reserves of sappy dry extract that confer a highly seductive texture in addition to buffering the exceptionally firm, compact and tightly wound bitter pit fruit-inflected finale that just goes on and on. This superb effort is consistently Rossignol’s finest wine and so it is again in 2020. If you can find it, buy it though note well that it is likely to mature glacially.
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