Albert Bichot : Pommard Village "Clos des Ursulines" Monopole Dom. du Pavillon 2019

A lush, polished style, whose texture is saturated with black cherry, blackberry, vanilla and toasty oak flavors. The underlying structure emerges on the lingering finish. Best from 2023 through 2038. 1,250 cases made, 180 cases imported.

Very attractive red-fruit nose with some floral notes and just a touch of smoky oak. An elegant wine for this appellation and you could easily mistake it for a Volnay. Very good depth, but also lovely freshness at the finish, which makes the tannins feel gentle. Long, elegant finish with a subtle, earthy touch. Albert Bichot’s Côtes de Beaune cellar is situated right next to this vineyard. Drink or hold.

Cask sample. Fairly light crimson. Light nose. The tannins have been handled so gently, I'm not sure I would recognise this as a Pommard. The fruit is really quite sweet in this wine and then there is some slightly pinched acidity. Rather a hole in the middle. Not one of Bichot's most winning 2019s, I feel. (JR)

Notes of peony, stone fruits, and dark fruits, with a fresh, elegant body that starts supple and finishes a bit firmer: this is Pommard.

A discreet nose, but the palate has real structure and lively fruit. It deserves to be left to mature quietly for a few years to absorb the pronounced oak that returns on the finish.

Dustings of crushed stone, ash and violet petals introduce this red-berried, satiny sip sourced from the southern end of Pommard near Volnay. Red-cherry and red-plum flavors on the palate are ripe but youthful and pure, accented by hints of fur and smoke and a lingering frame of fine-grained, sharply lingering tannins. It should approach peak by 2023 and improve through at least 2035.