2005 Comte Armand Pommard 1er Cru Clos des Epeneaux

Community Tasting Notes (56) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  3/2/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote:

  La Paulée de Los Angeles Grand Tasting (The Fairmont - Santa Monica CA): Walkaround tasting, at the Acker table. This will be a great wine, but is certainly still a tight, firm bruiser of a powerhouse that is teasing up with it being interesting now, even if not (yet) exciting.

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  2/25/2024 - Caruso Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Stored in a warmer than textbook cellar since release and developing at a glacial pace. Garnet with minimal lightening in thin layers. From the start a quite intense also complex nose and palate with black and red fruits and earthy notes like forest floor. I have to admit, that this is developing in a totally different way as I expected drinking the previous bottle. This withstands the time and slowly opens up to something interesting. But who wants to wait nearly 20 years after the vintage for a wine not much more than just excellent? I advice to let this stand upright for at least a week, because the sediment is very very fine. 5/13/17/10. -2040+

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  8/19/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:

  This was tasted next to a 10yo South Australian Syrah and in all honesty, there wasn’t much betwwythem…

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  4/25/2023 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Clos des Epeneaux survey, part II (Chicago, IL): Surprisingly, a decent 2005 (which honestly is few and far between, and I'll throw in my editorial comment that it is one seriously charmless vintage very much like 1986 Bordeaux). This is actually quite close in profile to the 2009, but the fruit is darker and feels more subdued. Almost a leathery tannic note here, with plenty of grainy tannin that still needs to be resolved. Probably the wine with the longest-lived potential tonight, and that's because there's enough fruit here.

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  4/16/2023 - KVM wrote:

  Very dark. A touch of cork taint but not terrible. There is so much dark fruit here, a silky complexion and then the grip! So young...this is quite a performance, despite the TCA.

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