POMMARD PREMIER CRU LES CHARMOTS > BOUCHARD Ainé & Fils

POMMARD PREMIER CRU
LES CHARMOTS

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2021 2022

Varietal

100% Pinot Noir.

Tasting notes

Visual: deep elegant black cherry red.

Nose: intense aromas of blackcurrant, blueberry and raspberry enhanced by vanilla and toasted bread notes.

Palate: a powerful wine with a nice length, intense fruit and present but well-integrated tannins.

Food and wine pairing

Serve with furred game, bison steak, jugged hare, Burgundian cheeses such as Epoisses, Cîteaux or Langres.

Serving suggestions

Ideally serve between 16° and 17°C / 61°-63°F.

Ageing potential

In good conditions, it can wait 10 years before being tasted and thus reveal to amateurs the evolved aromas of leather and venison.

Origins

Pommard is one of the most famous villages in the Côte de Beaune, located 5 km south of Beaune on the Route des Grands Crus. The vineyard extends over 322 hectares and produces only red wines, with a proportion of 36% rated 1er Cru.

The climat “Les Charmots” is located mid-slope just north of the village with an heavenly south-east exposure. Here the soil is rich in clay which gives their strength to the wines, and tinted with red for its richness in iron.

The name "Les Charmots" can come from hornbeams that might have grown there once or from the fact that it was an uncultivated land before people started growing vines (from tje latin word CALMIS/CALMA which means stony land).

Vinification and maturing

Hand-picked, the grapes are sorted in the vineyard and then again in the winery on a table. The grapes are then 100% de-stemmed but not crushed, so they are placed whole in wooden vats by gravity. Maceration lasts around 3 weeks, with regular punching down of the cap. No oenological products (such as yeasts, enzymes or tannins) are added to avoid altering this precious terroir. The wine is aged for 14 months in barrels without racking (20% new barrels).