A slight touch of reduction knocks what are otherwise earthy yet high-toned and beautifully nuanced ripe red berry fruit aromas that introduce intense, pure and well-balanced medium-bodied flavors that exude a fine minerality on the ripe, dusty and ever-so mildly austere finish. I like the overall sense of balance as well as the solid persistence and while this will be approachable young, it should amply reward a decade or so of bottle age.

90+ The 2009 Clos de la Commaraine is another of the very elegant young Pommards that I tasted on this trip. The nose is deep, complex and properly youthful, as it offers up scents of cassis, black cherries, dark chocolate, complex soil tones and a touch of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, minerally and very long, with a fair bit of chewy tannins, good acids and fine focus and grip on the long and inherently elegant finish. A fine bottle. (Drink between 2020-2060)