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POMMARD PREMIER CRU
LES CHARMOTS 2017

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LES CHARMOTS

POMMARD PREMIER CRU
LES CHARMOTS 2017

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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

This powerful wine will perfectly accompany furred game or meat with character such as a bison steak or jugged hare. Burgundian cheeses as Epoisses, Cîteaux or Langres will also be ideal.

Serving suggestions

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

Ageing potential

8 to 10 years in good cellaring conditions.

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

The wine was vinified in wooden vats to make its full body outstand and the oak melt naturally with the wine.

Then, it was casked into oak barrels for a 14-month ageing period during which its powerful structure will build and its tannins will silken. For that reason especially, we chose to use 20% new oak barrels.

Vintage : 2017

In 2017, Burgundy succeed at both quality and quantity levels.

After many vintages impacted by the climatic variation, Bouchard Ainé & Fils recover with the 2017 vintage, a very satisfactory harvest. Not only because the volumes will allow to supply the markets but also because the wines already offer the desire to discover this very elegant vintage.

After spending the winter building up their strength, the vines profited fully from a very warm spring, with budburst in early April ensuring a head start in terms of the growth cycle that was maintained right up to the harvest. The plants progressed from stage to stage free from hindrance, and by mid-June, were flowering before rapid fruit set. An early vintage was confirmed.

During the summer, a few spells of heatwave alternated with more mixed weather.

However, ripening continued at a good pace and by the end of August, the first grapes were being picked, two weeks ahead of average. Harvesting continued until mid-September as each plot reached peak maturity.

Harvest started on the first week of September in Burgundy and ended on September the 30th in the late parcels. The grapes were in exceptional health and required virtually no sorting. Everyone was very enthusiastic about this fabulous fruit, its peak ripeness, and the volumes produced.


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