2016 POMMARD 1er Cru Fremiers Domaine de Courcel, Lea & Sandeman

POMMARD

2021 1er Cru Fremiers Domaine de Courcel

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Beaune
Village Pommard
Classification 1er Cru
Vineyard Fremiers

Possibly a shade paler than the Croix Noires, a little touch of sweetness to the fruit here, sweet ripe hedgerow fruit in a gentle but positive body. Juicy. Finer than the Croix Noires however good that is. Drinking range: 2028 - 2038 L&S (Nov 2022)


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This is also overtly floral in character with a plenitude of spice elements complementing the ripe dark berry scents. There is excellent tension to the dense, sleekly muscular and quite powerful flavors that deliver fine length on the balanced if noticeably austere finale. This too could use better depth but more will almost certainly develop. Drinking range: 2023 - 2033 Rating: 91-94 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Apr 2023)

The Pommard Fremiers from the Domaine de Courcel is a bit reserved initially, but flavours of red cherry fruit and notes of earth, smoke, and spice open on the palate. The texture is silky and fine, with subtle tannin and balanced acidity. The 0.79-hectare parcel is low on the slope in deeper clay-rich soils. Among the domaine’s production, this will take a few years to open but should age nicely for ten to fifteen years after that. Drinking range: 2027 - 2050 Rating: 93 Charles Curtis MW, Decanter.com (Nov 2022)

Domaine de Courcel

One of the great domaines of Pommard, with a 400 year history in the same family. The domaine produces a small amount of Bourgogne Chardonnay, a completely over-performing Bourgogne Rouge, a village Pommard (Vaumuriens, 1.44 ha), but the biggest part of the domaine consists of four great Premier Cru expressions of the terroir of Pommard, Fremiers (0.79 ha), Croix Noires (0.58 ha), Grand Clos des Epenots (4.89 ha) and Rugiens (1.07 ha). These represent a very different style to the Clos des Épeneaux of Comte Armand, for example. Yves Confuron, the régisseur, describes the difference between the two top wines by saying that the Grand Clos is 'terreux' while the Rugiens is 'aérien'.

The aim is to limit yields to around 25hl/ha, to attain optimum ripeness. The vines are ploughed, and pruned carefully to suit each one, then de-budded in spring and green-harvested in August to keep the fruit load balanced. Following Yves' usual practice the harvest is late and the vatting is long - usually around a month, with a cold maceration leading into a cool fermentation, and a long post-fermentation soak under the protection of the carbon dioxide given off by the fermentation. The wines are developed in barrel over 21 to 23 months, with a third of the barrels being replaced each year. After racking they are bottled without fining or filtration.

The domaine produces wines with astonishing depth and density that still retain the freshness, just like Yves' own wines at Domaine Confuron-Cotetidot. They are classic vins de garde and patience is advised - and will be amply rewarded.

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