CNY Day 2 at Highland. Drank in Grassl Cru. Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs. Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of wilted flower petals, peony, fragrant touch of sous bois earth, clean stony minerality, elegant bloody meat. Developing. On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium- alcohol (12.5%), medium- tannins, medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of savoury sous bois earth, floral potpourri and spice, nice vein of stony minerality, underlying blood meat. Long memorable finish. Very very good quality. Oak already nicely integrated in, and starting to show the tertiary sous bois already with Pommard meatiness, while still retaining floral and elegant airy aspects. Love the 12.5% alcohol for a 2015. Looking back on all my tasting notes, beyond my love for well aged versions of Comte Armand and Courcel, I think I am developing quite a liking for the appellation of Pommard, especially with all the newer style ones such as this, Launay-Horiot, Bouley.
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Just too light and subtle for me. Was very elegant but just too restrained and a few hours open and second night did not change it. While a nice wine, still disappointing for the $99
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Dinner at Fragrant Garden (Fragrant Garden Restaurant, Serangoon): An absolute pleasure. A bit tight when first popped, but this opened up really nicely through the night. The nose was quite alluring, with dark cherries and violets, a little bit of spice, and then a nice touch of earth and mineral running alongside. Very nice. The palate was lovely when it got going too, with a lovely blush of dark cherries and blueberries laced with a little bit of spice and florals. Really enjoyable, and surprisingly light and forward for a 2015 Pommard, with really fine tannins and plenty of juicy acidity giving the wine a nicely elegant, accessible frame. This is really delicious now. I am not sure how well it will age in the very long term, but it should continue to developed nicely at least through the next decade or so. A lovely drop.
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opened at 4:30pm, quite expansive dark ripe berries, violet, blueberry, orange peel, green apple. like a fresh fruit platter right in front of you. This is very approachable young Pommard and really enjoy the aromas. Body is light with good acidity coupled with smooth tannins. Finish is dry. After an hour, tea leaves bouquet follows, getting musculine. The wine can be enjoyed for almost 3 hours.
During a Pommard dinner. Nose of vanilla, smoke, oak with red fruit, animalic touch, tobacco. This is very young, opened up over the night. Elegant and subtle Pommard style. Some people said this was more like a Volnay. 93+
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Spring Swing Through France-Random Wines Tasted or Imbibed; 4/14/2018-4/25/2018 (Burgundy, Alsace, Paris): Light muddled red. Nose with some barnyard funk and candied red fruits. Light to medium weight. This leads with tons of soil and is complemented by fine acidity and moderate tannins. Certainly elegant and not austere now. Discrete ripeness for 2015. Love the savory complexity and the fact that the ripeness is held in check, but I wonder about the level of brett and whether that will do this in over time.
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Made from biodynamically farmed (uncertified) grapes sourced from a Clos (enclosed plot) - a monopole of Heitz-Lochardet - located inside 1er Cru Les Poutures. 12,5% alcohol.
The pale red pomegranate color is noticeably lighter than those of the other 2015 Heitz-Lochardet Pommards tasted alongside this. Rather wide colorless rim. Pure, fragrant and very perfumed nose with attractive aromas of ripe raspberries, some brambly dark berries, a little bit of wild aromatic character and a subtle sappy hint perhaps suggesting whole-bunch fermentations. The wine is quite light-to-medium-bodied, dry and crunchy on the palate with intense, crunchy flavors of cranberries, lingonberries, spicy bitterness, some floral notes of violets, a hint of playful earthy Pinosity and a touch of peppery spice. The wine is high in acidity with surprisingly firm and grippy medium tannins, lending nice, structured sense of seriousness to the wine. The finish is dry, somewhat grippy and complex with lengthy flavors of cranberries, something slightly wild and aromatic, a little bit of earthy Pinosity, a hint of raspberry leaf tea and a touch of savory, pepper-driven spice.
This is a surprisingly light and playful effort for a Pommard, yet remarkably intense, structured and serious at the same time. The wine shows wonderful focus, freshness and purity and its expressive character make it very lovely already now, but it is easy to see a lot of potential for future development here. Not a big and concentrated wine, as opposed to what one would expect from a Pommard, but nevertheless an incredibly pure and pretty wine with firm, tightly-knit structure. Very lovely, highly recommended.
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La Paulée de San Francisco - Grand Tasting (The Fairmont - San Francisco CA): Tasting, brief note. Wow, what an unexpected thrill. Fat black fruit and meaty spice aromas. Very dense palate, very long and already showing layers of flavor emerging. Thankfully I sensed none of the mercaptans described in the Burghound review (nor did other tasters I spoke with). A very engaging wine.
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3/12/2024 - pren wrote: 89 Points
尝，100whole cluster 偏淡
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2/11/2024 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 94 Points
CNY Day 2 at Highland. Drank in Grassl Cru.
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of wilted flower petals, peony, fragrant touch of sous bois earth, clean stony minerality, elegant bloody meat. Developing.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium- alcohol (12.5%), medium- tannins, medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of savoury sous bois earth, floral potpourri and spice, nice vein of stony minerality, underlying blood meat. Long memorable finish.
Very very good quality. Oak already nicely integrated in, and starting to show the tertiary sous bois already with Pommard meatiness, while still retaining floral and elegant airy aspects. Love the 12.5% alcohol for a 2015.
Looking back on all my tasting notes, beyond my love for well aged versions of Comte Armand and Courcel, I think I am developing quite a liking for the appellation of Pommard, especially with all the newer style ones such as this, Launay-Horiot, Bouley.
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8/21/2023 - ddingley wrote: 90 Points
Just too light and subtle for me. Was very elegant but just too restrained and a few hours open and second night did not change it. While a nice wine, still disappointing for the $99
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7/19/2022 - JOHNKELLYROBINSON@GMAIL.COM Likes this wine: 85 Points
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7/19/2022 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Sommelier Scholarship Fund Tasting (Popina - Brooklyn NY): Walk around tasting. So heavily reductive I couldn't assess anything else. Odd - this wine thrilled me when last tasted in 2018.
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8/25/2021 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Dinner at Fragrant Garden (Fragrant Garden Restaurant, Serangoon): An absolute pleasure. A bit tight when first popped, but this opened up really nicely through the night. The nose was quite alluring, with dark cherries and violets, a little bit of spice, and then a nice touch of earth and mineral running alongside. Very nice. The palate was lovely when it got going too, with a lovely blush of dark cherries and blueberries laced with a little bit of spice and florals. Really enjoyable, and surprisingly light and forward for a 2015 Pommard, with really fine tannins and plenty of juicy acidity giving the wine a nicely elegant, accessible frame. This is really delicious now. I am not sure how well it will age in the very long term, but it should continue to developed nicely at least through the next decade or so. A lovely drop.
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8/7/2020 - Drinks Mak wrote: 93 Points
opened at 4:30pm, quite expansive dark ripe berries, violet, blueberry, orange peel, green apple. like a fresh fruit platter right in front of you. This is very approachable young Pommard and really enjoy the aromas. Body is light with good acidity coupled with smooth tannins. Finish is dry. After an hour, tea leaves bouquet follows, getting musculine. The wine can be enjoyed for almost 3 hours.
第一次喝 Heitz Lachardet，是一位年青釀酒師 Armand Heitz. 4:30pm 開瓶，初始有很好清新的 紫羅蘭，藍莓，青蘋果，橙皮，黑色成熟不同漿果香氣，類似新鮮的水果盤放在你面前。1小時後 茶葉香氣開始釋放，香氣變得有點力量和勁度。酒體比較輕盈，有融和丹寧和酸度，餘韻算是乾結。雖然是非常年青的一瓶 Pommard，但香氣已經非常奔放。這酒可以喝 3小時。
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2/3/2019 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
There’s a chalky base upon with red berry and plum fruits play. The whole bunch is evident here with a delightful note of rose petal.
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6/22/2018 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points
During a Pommard dinner. Nose of vanilla, smoke, oak with red fruit, animalic touch, tobacco. This is very young, opened up over the night. Elegant and subtle Pommard style. Some people said this was more like a Volnay. 93+
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4/24/2018 - drwine2001 wrote:
Spring Swing Through France-Random Wines Tasted or Imbibed; 4/14/2018-4/25/2018 (Burgundy, Alsace, Paris): Light muddled red. Nose with some barnyard funk and candied red fruits. Light to medium weight. This leads with tons of soil and is complemented by fine acidity and moderate tannins. Certainly elegant and not austere now. Discrete ripeness for 2015. Love the savory complexity and the fact that the ripeness is held in check, but I wonder about the level of brett and whether that will do this in over time.
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3/21/2018 - forceberry wrote: 94 Points
Made from biodynamically farmed (uncertified) grapes sourced from a Clos (enclosed plot) - a monopole of Heitz-Lochardet - located inside 1er Cru Les Poutures. 12,5% alcohol.
The pale red pomegranate color is noticeably lighter than those of the other 2015 Heitz-Lochardet Pommards tasted alongside this. Rather wide colorless rim. Pure, fragrant and very perfumed nose with attractive aromas of ripe raspberries, some brambly dark berries, a little bit of wild aromatic character and a subtle sappy hint perhaps suggesting whole-bunch fermentations. The wine is quite light-to-medium-bodied, dry and crunchy on the palate with intense, crunchy flavors of cranberries, lingonberries, spicy bitterness, some floral notes of violets, a hint of playful earthy Pinosity and a touch of peppery spice. The wine is high in acidity with surprisingly firm and grippy medium tannins, lending nice, structured sense of seriousness to the wine. The finish is dry, somewhat grippy and complex with lengthy flavors of cranberries, something slightly wild and aromatic, a little bit of earthy Pinosity, a hint of raspberry leaf tea and a touch of savory, pepper-driven spice.
This is a surprisingly light and playful effort for a Pommard, yet remarkably intense, structured and serious at the same time. The wine shows wonderful focus, freshness and purity and its expressive character make it very lovely already now, but it is easy to see a lot of potential for future development here. Not a big and concentrated wine, as opposed to what one would expect from a Pommard, but nevertheless an incredibly pure and pretty wine with firm, tightly-knit structure. Very lovely, highly recommended.
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3/3/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
La Paulée de San Francisco - Grand Tasting (The Fairmont - San Francisco CA): Tasting, brief note. Wow, what an unexpected thrill. Fat black fruit and meaty spice aromas. Very dense palate, very long and already showing layers of flavor emerging. Thankfully I sensed none of the mercaptans described in the Burghound review (nor did other tasters I spoke with). A very engaging wine.
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3/3/2018 - Nanda wrote:
La Paulée de SF Grand Tasting (Fairmont Hotel, SF CA): Captivating, layered nose of spice and rich red cherry. Expansive, rich with pure red cherries. Approachable and full of pleasure. 92-94
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3/3/2018 - alanr wrote: 91 Points
Elegant, lovely delicate fruit, very pretty wine.
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