Domaine de Courcel, Pommard 1er Cru Grand Clos des Epenots, 1988 SO062625 Peyrassol offer producing a wine with balance

producing a wine with balance and complexity

tucked into the cooler reaches of Napa’s Chiles Valley

with the savory depth that makes Pomerol so seductive

and Romano Dal Forno produces it only in special vintages with near-obsessive care

Domaine de Courcel, Pommard 1er Cru Grand Clos des Epenots, 1988 SO062625 Peyrassol offer producing a wine with balanceA thirty eight year old Pommard from a walled monopole, in the vintage built to go exactly this distance: 1988 was firm, tannic and high in acid, a year that demanded decades and has finally been given them. Grand Clos des penots is Domaine de Courcel's own 4. 89 hectare enclosure inside Les Grands penots, on brown clay limestone soil only 40 to 60 centimeters deep and studded with limestone rock penots is the Beaune side of Pommard, the perfumed