POMMARD PREMIER CRU LES POUTURES

POMMARD PREMIER CRU
LES POUTURES 2018

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Grape variety

100% Pinot Noir.

Tasting notes

Colour: Intense dark ruby.
Bouquet: Aromas of a certain virility, on a fruity, woody and animal framework of great complexity.
Palate: The structure is solid, the tannins still present. The chewiness is remarkable, the flavours are all at once fruity, animal, spicy and liquorice. Quite powerful, this is a racy wine with a strong character.

Wine and food pairing

Drink with fine roasted or oven-grilled meats, prime rib, rump steak with pepper, marinated game or poultry in sauce, not forgetting creamy Burgundy cheeses but not too strong.

Serving temperature

Serve ideally at room temperature, around 16-18°C (60-64°F).

Ageing potential

A Premier Cru that can be kept in the cellar 8 to 10 years.

Origin

The vineyard of Pommard is located on the Côte de Beaune, in Burgundy, between the village of Volnay to the south and the town of Beaune to the north. The Pommard appellation only produces red wines, all exclusively from Pinot Noir. The surface area of the vineyard covers approximately 300 hectares, 125 hectares of which are Premiers Crus.

The climat " Les Poutures ", whose name comes from "pâtures", covers 4 ha 12 a 74 ca on the lower part of the vineyard, in the middle of the hillside.

The soils are composed of ancient alluvial deposits, clay and limestone, well drained thanks to a pebble of rocky debris. Iron oxide in the form of veins sometimes reddens the earth. Exposure to the east and south. Altitude: between 250 and 330 metres.

Vinification and maturing

Hand-picked, the grapes are first sorted in the vineyard and then in the cellars as soon as they arrive. After this severe sorting, they are destemmed and crushed, then put into thermo-regulated vats. Vatting lasts 22 to 25 days. The vinification begins with a cold maceration (8°-10°C. / 46-50°F.) for 5 to 6 days, then the fermentation is carried out with the introduction of Burgundy yeasts, with daily pumping over and punching down. The wine is then aged in 228 litre barrels, of which 35% are new, for 12 to 15 months.

Vintage : 2018

It is quite hardly to sum up the vintage 2018 in a few words! Winter, grey and humid was followed by a capricious spring, subject to frosts and alternating times of sunshine and storms on an almost daily basis from May to the mid-June, making this period particularly stressful for our people in the vineyards.

Then came an incredible time of nice weather, hot, very hot and even heatwave periods until the end of… October!

Another particular vintage which looks like no other! As rainfalls episodes were particularly localized, we had to deal with very different degree of ripeness from a plot to another, depending of the water volume received by each vineyard.

In 2018, as in other French wine region, quality and quantity were very satisfactory on our whole vineyard and were are very pleased with the quality of the vinified juices currently ageing in 228 L. Burgundian barrels in our cellars.

Harvest took place on our vineyards between the end of August (27th) and the 18th of September under a hot and persistent autumn sun. Even if the weather was very nice, the harvest period was very long and demanding in the vineyards as well as in the winery, due to the particularly different stages of ripeness. This is, without doubt, what one will retain from this harvest: so different ripeness degrees and so very different harvesting time from a village to another and even from a parcel to another in the same vineyard!

White wines were mostly harvested first in order to keep a nice acidity on this particularly solar vintage.

Reds, in their purple violine dress, already augur a rich and powerful vintage.

POMMARD PREMIER CRU LES POUTURES 2018