Pommard Cuvée Carmen
2021
Le domaine Latour-Giraud est établi dans le village de Meursault, sur la route nationale, depuis de nombreuses générations. Centré tout d’abord sur Meursault, le domaine possède une gamme impressionnante de parcelles classées premier cru et villages, dont les vignes ont entre 20 et 50 ans et plus d’âge, notamment la plus grande parcelle de premier cru Genevrières, dont les deux tiers des vignes ont plus de 50 ans. Latour-Giraud se spécialise dans les bourgognes blancs, qui...
A somber, even brooding, nose features notes of ripe dark berries, newly turned earth and a whiff of spice. The fresh, full-bodied and intense middle weight flavors display a touch of rusticity on the youthfully austere finale. This will need a few to further flesh out and add depth.
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(from Les Vignots). Ripe and pretty aromas include those of mostly red berries and earth nuances. There is both good vibrancy and detail to the attractively textured middleweight flavors that exude a subtle minerality on the mildly austere and impeccably well-balanced finale. This is firm enough to repay up to a decade of cellaring, which is just as well as it could use better overall depth. Worth considering, especially since this is a bit finer than usual.
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(from Les Vignots). A distinctly earthy and vaguely sauvage-inflected nose freely reveals its
aromas of both red and dark berries. There is lovely verve and detail to the delicious middle weight flavors that conclude in a
mildly rustic and youthfully austere finale. This is sufficiently structured to need at least a few years of keeping.
(2/3 from Les Vignots and 1/3 from the 1er Refène). Excellent limpid ruby color. Fresh if somber aromas include those of forest floor, red currant, dark cherry and a hint of the sauvage. I very much like the texture of the equally polished and sleek medium-bodied flavors that also flash evident minerality on the tension-filled, youthfully austere and balanced finish that isn’t quite as persistent. This should repay up to a decade of keeping yet there is sufficient mid-palate fat to allow it to be enjoyed young too.
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