Philippe Pacalet, Pommard Vintage:2020 spice and warm toasty notes

spice and warm toasty notes are front and center

This and the Suchots are often Grivot’s best Vosne 1ers and so it is again in 2011

In very difficult years

somber and animale suffused aromas of dark pinot fruit that precedes rich

Philippe Pacalet, Pommard Vintage:2020 spice and warm toasty notes(from Les Trois Follots, Les Vaumuriens, Rugiens Hauts villages and La Vache). Ripe and very fresh aromas blend notes of red and dark pinot fruit with those of violet and cool earth. There is outstanding intensity to the rather refined medium weight flavors that exude a subtle minerality on the youthfully austere finish that also could use a bit more depth to achieve the upper end of my projected range.