1999 Domaine / Maison Vincent Girardin Pommard 1er Cru Les Grands Épenots

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  2/24/2022 - WineGuyX Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Wow, what a unique nose. Difficult to describe aromas of day-after blackened fire logs left to smolder and road tar. Loaded with animale and barnyard. Medium-bodied at best with high acidity and grippy tannins. Not much fruit, but there is some distinct black cherry and cranberry as well as rosemary, thyme and fennel. This is thoroughly neat! But seems like this would have been better 5 years ago. Slight salinity adds interest to the clean and medium-long finish. This wine's interest and uniqueness punches way above the quality score. 92

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  9/29/2019 - sunnylea57 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Far better than anticipated, although I don’t know why I had low expectations in the first place. A bit of rusty red bricking. A vibrant, sinus-clearing nose: black cherry, menthol, campfire ash and mushroom. Similar palate. The black cherry and strawberry are bright and dominate the palate, and the wet campfire ash and mushroom add extra intrigue. Excellent acidity. A Côte de Beaune 1er Cru at 20 years that is still at or near its apex. Two big fat thumbs up.

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  8/18/2013 - brittain Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Drinking a point. Tannin all resolved. Lovely high-toned nose. Develops warm, sweet palate in glass. Sadly now all gone. Drunk alongside a 99 Comte Armand clos de Epeneaux, which was firmer and more closed, needing several more years to really blossom - but then should be the better wine.

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  11/9/2008 - Siggy wrote: 88 Points

  Tasting Group Dinner - Burgundy (Cafe Levain, Minneapolis): Interesting flavors of molasses/gingerbread, sushi wrapper, smoke, and dark fruit, framed by lots of toasty oak. Mid-weight, with a long finish. A bit odd, but this was very tasty and really grew on me.

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