2021 Pommard, Les Digonelles, David Moreau, Burgundy

2021 Pommard, Les Digonelles, David Moreau, Burgundy

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2021 Pommard, Les Digonelles, David Moreau, Burgundy

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Description

The Les Dignonelles Pommard used to be farmed on David’s behalf, but since 2020 he has moved the vineyard back in-house. The wine is a blend of Perrières (close to Beaune), En Boeuf (high in the combe) and Dignonelles (a fossilised marine bi-valve). The wine is well-made and calm, with a little spice to it. Drink 2023 - 2029. 

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Jasper Morris MW88-91/100
This is a blend of two lieux-dits, Les Perrières and En Bœuf, respectively on the flat land and high on the slope at the back of the valley. Pretty, light purple in colour. A little more depth of a pure pinot, well made and quite stylish, with the fruit continuing through to the back. David notes that this is a fresh and digeste style of Pommard, and has switched barrel coopers to suit.

Drink 2025-2030

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About this WINE

David Moreau

David Moreau

David Moreau has taken over part of his octogenerian grandfather’s wine domaine in Santenay in Côte de Beaune, beginning with the 2009 vintage. Prior to that David has worked with Olivier Lamy and Domaine de la Romanée Conti, as well as doing a stage in New Zealand at Neudorf.

David is beginning with 5 of the family’s 9 hectares and suffice to say that significant changes in both viticulture and vinification have been made compared to the ancien regime. The vineyards were almost all planted in the 1960s, so David has old vines to work with. They are mostly pruned by cordon royat to minimise vigour, and the land is either ploughed or left with grass depending on the circumstance of a given plot.

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Pinot Noir

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.

Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.

The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.

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