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2018 Pommard, Les Pézerolles, 1er Cru, Domaine de Montille, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
For laying down
William Kelley
91-93/100
Product: 20188016597
2018 Pommard, Les Pézerolles, 1er Cru, Domaine de Montille, Burgundy

Description

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The 2018 Pommard 1er Cru Les Pezerolles was showing especially well, bursting from the glass with scents of orange rind, peonies, wild berries and cinnamon that's quite marked by its whole-cluster component. Medium to full-bodied, succulent and supple, it's ripe and enveloping, with supple, powdery tannins cloaked in a fleshy core of fruit.

Winemaker Brian Sieve has excelled himself in 2018, producing a portfolio of elegant, precise wines that bear the stamp of the vintage without being dominated by it. As was the case last year, some wines were quite tight-knit and reserved when I tasted them in December, but they will flesh out and open up considerably by the time they're bottled. A number of 2017s, revisited in bottle, had done just that. 

As usual, comparatively long macerations with frequently significant percentages of whole cluster are the order of the day chez de Montille. And as I reported last year, following European Union legislation that prohibits one label from bearing the names of two appellations, the holdings of the Château de Puligny-Montrachet have now been incorporated into the Domaine de Montille, and they are accordingly reviewed here. There are no changes to the Maison de Montille négociant house, and those wines are reviewed under a separate heading in this report.

William Kelley, Wine Advocate (February 2020)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2018
Alcohol % 13
Maturity For laying down
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine de Montille

Critics reviews

William Kelley 91-93/100
The 2018 Pommard 1er Cru Les Pezerolles was showing especially well, bursting from the glass with scents of orange rind, peonies, wild berries and cinnamon that's quite marked by its whole-cluster component. Medium to full-bodied, succulent and supple, it's ripe and enveloping, with supple, powdery tannins cloaked in a fleshy core of fruit.Winemaker Brian Sieve has excelled himself in 2018, producing a portfolio of elegant, precise wines that bear the stamp of the vintage without being dominated by it. As was the case last year, some wines were quite tight-knit and reserved when I tasted them in December, but they will flesh out and open up considerably by the time they're bottled. A number of 2017s, revisited in bottle, had done just that. As usual, comparatively long macerations with frequently significant percentages of whole cluster are the order of the day chez de Montille. And as I reported last year, following European Union legislation that prohibits one label from bearing the names of two appellations, the holdings of the Château de Puligny-Montrachet have now been incorporated into the Domaine de Montille, and they are accordingly reviewed here. There are no changes to the Maison de Montille négociant house, and those wines are reviewed under a separate heading in this report.William Kelley, Wine Advocate (February 2020)
William Kelley, RobertParker.com (Feb 2020)

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Domaine de Montille

The De Montille family has long been a venerable one in Burgundy, though Domaine de Montille’s reputation was properly established in 1947: prominent Dijon lawyer Hubert de Montille inherited 2.5 hectares in Volnay, later adding further parcels in Volnay, Pommard and Puligny. Hubert’s style was famously austere: low alcohol, high tannin and sublime in maturity. His son, Etienne, joined him from ’83 to ’89 before becoming the senior winemaker, taking sole charge from ’95. Etienne also managed Château de Puligny-Montrachet from ’01; he bought it, with investors, in ’12. The two estates were separate until ’17, when the government decreed that any wine estate bearing an appellation name could no longer offer wine from outside that appellation. The solution was to absorb the château estate into De Montille – the amalgamated portfolio is now one of the finest in the Côte d’Or. Etienne converted the estate to organics in ‘95, and to biodynamics in 2005, making the house style more generous and open, focusing on the use of whole bunches for the reds.
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