LES COUPÉS Blanc de Noirs 'Franc de Pied' 1er Cru Écueil Nicolas Maillart 2015 vs POMMARD 1er Cru Clos des Épeneaux Domaine Comte Armand 2013
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| Availability | In stock | Out of stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £128.95 | — |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | — |
| Style | Other | Other |
| Grape | Pinot Noir | Pinot Noir |
| ABV | 12.5% | 13% |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
| Where to buy | No current tracked offers |
LES COUPÉS Blanc de Noirs 'Franc de Pied' 1er Cru Écueil Nicolas Maillart 2015
Certified sustainable (HVE). 100% Pinot Noir from ungrafted, mass-selection vines planted in 1973. Spontaneous fermentation in oak barrels where the wine spends a further nine months on lees. No malo, unfined, unfiltered. Zero dosage. Disgorged September 2021. 3,326 bottles and 161 magnums produced. Stately concentration and muscle. A broad-framed, densely savoury, towering wine. Coffee, caramel, cooked cream and toasted cashews. This is a wine for venison! It’s meaty and glorious. Truffles. Shiitake. And yet there is a shiso-leaf aromatic freshness running through the heart of it. Extraordinary. Out of this world.
POMMARD 1er Cru Clos des Épeneaux Domaine Comte Armand 2013
Former winemaker Benjamin Leroux oversaw the 2013 Pommard Clos des Epeneaux 1er Cru, though Paul Zanetti told me he finished the aging in barrel. In this vintage, the wine was completely de-stemmed due to hail damage. The nose is well defined though simple, tertiary, with plenty of damp undergrowth/autumn leaf notes. The palate is medium-bodied with rustic tannins and fine weight. It's ferrous in style, with dark chocolate and tobacco leaf toward the finish. A little introspective, perhaps? This is a decent muscular Clos des Epeneaux, though not in the same class as the recent top vintages.
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