It’s not every day I would recommend a village wine from Burgundy’s Cote de Beaune at this price, but the vintage was exceptional and so is Drouhin’s Pommard from this very good year. The nose is well developed and highly perfumed, and on the palate the wines shows good persistence of black cherry fruit, a firm structure and hints of spice. It’s very tight at this writing, but the depth is there. This wine has outstanding potential and will begin to reveal its subtle complexities with another year or two under cork.
Joseph Drouhin, Pommard (Cote de Beaune, Burgundy, France) 2009
By Robert Whitley