2010 Domaine Michel Gaunoux Pommard 1er Cru Les Grands Épenots

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  3/7/2024 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Excited to try this. From a Zalto Burgundy bowl. Pure and translucent red perfume in the nose - sour and sweet cherries, cranberries, rose water and rose petals, mushrooms, subtle cinnamon & spice, savory herbs and crunchy green stemmy notes. Others have noted game and sous Bois and those are there as well. Sour and black cherries, with herbs, stems, and earth on the palate. Light to medium bodied with nice sap and crunch. Very lithe and elegant. Lots of umami mushroom/soy notes come out as the palate develops and into the finish. There’s a pulse of beautiful red (cherry and wild strawberry) fruits into the finish which has a real verve and develops well adding cinnamon and rose notes. Really lovely old school Red Burg. Nose - 5.5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, Finish - 5.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 18/20.

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  2/19/2023 - Roland67 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Domaine Michel Gaunoux Pommard 1er Cru Les Grands Épenots 2010 vs. Comte Armand Pommard 1er Cru Clos des Epeneaux 2011: Popped and then soft recorked at noon, first glass poured after 4 hours. At first the acidity was overwhelming, but after some hours the fruit appeared, and this wine came together at a almost perfect balance. Developed further over the evening. Intriguing nose with dark berries behind a fence of both forest notes and stony minerality. On the palate the fruit comes first with redberries and cherry and a long, complex finish that keeps hanging around. Lovely wine. Surely have another decade or two to develop in the cellar. If drinking now, decant gently and enjoy the development over several hours. I love this. P 95+

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  5/27/2022 - etyc Likes this wine:

  PnP'ed, and left to breathe in bottle for ~2-hrs before being served. This came after a (blind) bottle of '08 Anne Gros Echezeaux (which was very floral, and I had thought it was this/my btl of this Gaunoux Epenots) and had similar lifted and beautiful florals of roses, strawberries, tea-leaves and tinge of "sarsaparilla" (which one of our wine-buddies coined). Pure, bright & lifted/perfumed palate of more red-fruits framed with a velvety texture. This was a very pretty, refined & assured wine. Nice!

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  2/7/2022 - etyc Likes this wine:

  Since I was going to open the '09 Gaunoux Corton, I thought it might be fun to also bring along the '10 Gaunoux Epenots, and to serve it blind, to see how it compares with both the Corton & rest of the wines... and wow, this surely shone amidst a bevy of other Burgs & Bords. If the Gaunoux Corton was floral, this was even more impressive in the aromatics department, with an even more alluring note that kept not one, but a few of us commenting how good it was (smelled) throughout the evening. Equally impressive was this on the palate; Compared to the Corton, this had that additional dimension of "inner perfume", that of top-class tea, that lingered on, and on... At this stage, most guesses were veering towards Vosne, or north-wards... Such beauty & elegance... Most delicious!

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  4/1/2021 - etyc Likes this wine:

  Fan-boy of Gaunoux wines (have had a quite a bit of the Rugiens), this is my 1st of a case of the '10 Grands-Epenots. Brought it for an impromptu dinner - Popped, and had it slow-ox'ed in bottle for ~2+ hrs prior to pouring. This certainly upheld my expectations - it almost exploded with a very pure, airy & lifted nose of red-berries/cherries (in fact, a bit too much giving/showing that some thought this was a new-world Pinot) with a tinge of sandalwood & floral spices. Sappy, velvety with oh-so-nice red-fruit-concentration on the palate, the purity & freshness followed with great after-taste of nice Iron-Buddha tea that left with it a nice inner-mouth perfume... When revealed this was a Burg with as old-school wine-making as it could be, guesses swung to a young (pretty) CdN wine; A friend noticed some structure beneath the wealth of fruit to which I then revealed it was CdB, and a Gaunoux... Bravo!

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