Pommard Premier Cru 'Les Grands Épenots', Domaine de Montille, (Magnum) 2022 vs Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo, - 3L (Jeroboam) 2020
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo, - 3L (Jeroboam) 2020 currently starts £1.00 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £369.00 | £368.00 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Producer | Domaine de Montille | Tenuta San Leonardo |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Pinot Noir | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon |
| Size | 1500ml | 3000ml |
| Where to buy |
Pommard Premier Cru 'Les Grands Épenots', Domaine de Montille, (Magnum) 2022
Domaine de Montille is one of Burgundy’s most revered estates and this burgeoning family property is very much at the top of its game, producing wines of exceptional quality: scintillating, proper Burgundies, unusually across both reds and whites. Features as one of the Top 10 Côte de Beaune Red Wine Producers and Top 10 Côte de Beaune White Wine Producers in Tim Atkin's Burgundy 2022 Special Report. Self-confessed ‘acid freak’ Brian Sieve was especially careful with battonage and lees-stirring of the Chardonnays in 2022, to maintain freshness and verve, noting that it was not a high acid vintage. A little less new oak (not that there is ever more than just enough) and whole bunches in the reds than in the previous solar vintages, plus the gentler acid profile means the wines have a charm and immediacy to rival any vintage we’ve tasted from the domaine. “From one of the two most reputed premier cru sites in the village, touching Grand Cru quality (a status upgrade growers requested back in 2012). 70% whole bunch and 20% new oak. Deep red cherry nose, baking spices, cherry tobacco, star anise and moist, humus-rich earth leads seamlessly on to a powerful, broad attack, full of red cherry sweetness and spiced plums, with tapenade and soy notes, drawn in linear fashion by juicy, well covered tannins, which are chocolatey and rich but fresh and fine-grained too. A really super, dimensional wine – that shows off the best of Pommard.” Tom Harrow, Head Wine Guru
Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo, - 3L (Jeroboam) 2020
For fifteen years, we have unapologetically beaten the drum for San Leonardo, and it’s fantastic to see its critical acclaim and global recognition growing year after year. Jancis Robinson describes it as “ Surely the most successful Bordeaux blend of Northern Italy ”, a wine of “ astoundingly consistent quality… beautifully low-key and like the most refined red Bordeaux imaginable. ” The 2020 release continues this extraordinary lineage, following in the footsteps of the back-to-back 98-point 2018 and 2019 vintages, and has just been crowned 'Red Wine of the Year 2026' by The Essential Guide to Italian Wines (DoctorWine), with founder Daniele Cernilli praising its “ unquestionable finesse and elegance ” and consistency stretching back to the first vintage in 1982 (what a year to start!). "The latest vintage is a remarkable wine, fine-boned, pure and detailed, with herbal fruit, filigree tannins and the estate’s signature vein of spicy acidity. The nose is pure and herbaceous-led, rosehips, hawthorn, and wild mountain herbs from the carménère lead the aromatics, supported by classic Cabernet lead pencil, cedar and forest berries and spicier Merlot red plums. The palate is sapid and fresh, with crystalline blue and red fruits, capturing a floral purity, that progress in a linear fashion to the savoury, saline, dry spice-inflected finish. Carrying just 12.5% alcohol, this mid-weight charmer reinforces San Leonardo’s deserved reputation for paying homage to classic Bordeaux, focussed on energy and elegance." Tom Harrow
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