POMMARD 1er Cru Les Jarollières Pousse d'Or 2019

Les Jarollières premier cru

Appellation : Premier Cru

Superficie : 1,44 hectare

Situation : Bordée d'un mur de pierre dans sa partie supérieure.

Orientation : Est

Sol : Terrains calcaires assez argileux

Cépage : 100% Pinot Noir

Années de plantation : 30% en 1925, 14% en 1962, 5% en 1967, 14% en 1970, 20% en 1971, et 17% en 1990.

Vignoble : Les vignes sont cultivées sans pesticide ni insecticide, et l'unique apport, la fumure, est d'origine naturelle. La terre est travaillée, sans désherbant, pour maintenir l'aération ainsi que la souplesse du sol

Vinification : Vendange manuelle en caissettes, triée en cuverie, éraflée à 100 %. Macération à froid pendant 7 jours, régulation de la température de fermentation, deux pigeages par jour, cuvaison pendant 21 jours. Élevage : Sur lie en fûts de chêne (30% neufs) pendant 18 mois, fermentation malolactique naturelle et tardive, sans collage ni filtration, soutirage et mise en bouteille par gravité.

Dégustation : Nez épicé avec une note boisée présente et bien fondue ; bouche fine de fruits rouges ; vin fondu, harmonieux, avec un bel équilibre.

BURGHOUND :  93

2019 Pommard “Les Jarolières”: This is also beautifully layered with its ripe and equally fresh nose reflects notes of roasted purple fruit, warm earth and an unusual hint of hoisin. The succulent, round and relatively refined flavors possess fine mid-palate volume along with a similar taut muscularity before terminating in a youthfully austere finish that is shaped by a very firm tannic spine. This too is excellent and a wine that should amply repay extended keeping. 93/2034+

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Benoît Landanger, who has assumed the direction of this domaine and has converted it to biodynamic farming principles, briefly noted that “2019 is a terrific vintage but it didn’t give us much quantity as our yields were only 20 to 20 hl/ha. We picked from the 11th of September and maturities were actually pretty uniform as potential alcohols bunched between 13.5 to 13.8% with two wines at 14%, which was the highest degree we had. I’m really pretty happy with the results as the transparency is much better than one would expect given how warm the growing season was.” Once again, I had a chance to taste three wines that were vinified exactly the same as the regular cuvées but were raised in amphora; this is to say the En Caillerets, Clos de la Bousse d’Or and the Clos des 60 Ouvrées vineyards. I note these using the term amphore in the reviews, but the actual terminology found on the label reads “Vinifié et Élevé en Amphore”. I would add that I was really impressed with the quality of the 2019 vintage here as the wines seem to have just a bit more of that hard to describe “presence” than usual. Landanger noted that the wines from the Côte de Beaune were bottled in February 2021