POMMARD 1er Cru Épenots Domaine Nicolas Rossignol 2020 vs POMMARD Vieilles Vignes La Levrière Domaine Dugat-Py 2020

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.