2016 Pommard la Levriere
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(from what Loïc Dugat described as a normal crop for these 70+-year-old vines: just 20 hectoliters per hectare with very little frost; vinified with 50% whole clusters and aging in 60% new oak): Very ripe, slightly high-toned aromas of licorice pastille, blueberry liqueur and blackberry come across as distinctly roasted after the first two Gevrey samples (this fruit was picked at the beginning of the harvest, on September 21). The high-toned character carries through onto the palate, where the black fruit flavors are complicated by red-soil notes of tobacco and brown spices and supported by a firm stony underpinning. This solid, powerful wine boasts serious old-vines thickness of texture with just enough balancing acidity. Finishes with a boatload of tannins but has the sweetness and intensity of fruit to support them. This village wine will probably need a good four or five years of cellaring upon release.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The 2016 Pommard la Levriere Vieilles Vignes was the first to be picked (as usual) and was touched lightly by the frost. Matured in two-thirds new oak with 30% whole bunch, it has a clean and pure black cherry and cassis-scented bouquet, not unlike a Vosne-Romanée in many ways! The palate is medium-bodied, sweet and candied on the entry with a mixture of red and black fruit, grainy tannin and a tightly wound, saline finish that just needs to develop more sustain on the aftertaste.
50% whole bunch, a bit less than usual, 67% new oak. Vines 70 years old. First picked. Sweet, rich, heady black-fruit flavours. Very lively and fresh and dramatic. Much more approachable than the Nuits wines with the tannins of Pommard well hidden under all the fruit. (JR)
About the producer
Dugat-Py, based at the base of the Combe de Lavaux in Gevrey-Chambertin, stands as one of Burgundy’s most revered producers, known for crafting Pinot Noir of incredible depth, power, and age-worthiness.