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2019 Auxey Duresses 1er cru
£54.80 per Bottle
£328.82 per Case
£43.00 per Bottle
£258.00 per Case
Bottle - 75cl
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Up until 1994 the only wine produced by Comte Armand was from their monopole, the five-hectare Clos des Epeneaux. At that point, the energetic estate manager Pascal Marchand persuaded the Armand family to invest in other vineyards in Volnay and Auxey Duresses, taking it up to its current size of nine hectares. Since his appointment in 1985, March and had transformed the quality of the wines and moved to farming biodynamically in 1988. Benjamin Leroux, who succeeded him in 2000, built on his work, producing ever finer wines. He in turn was replaced in 2014 by his assistant Paul Zinetti, and today the quality is unprecedented: Pommard’s reputation used to be for rustic, brutally tannic wines that took forever to come round. That it is now known for dense, fine wines of great elegance is largely thanks to these three men.
Paul Zinetti is a happy man. After one of the lowest yields on record in 2021 – the Clos produced 13 hectolitres per hectare – the 2022 crop was the most generous since 1999 and 2009, with a respectable 37 hectolitres per hectare. There were so many grapes, in fact, that they barely fitted into the vats, and he was not able to use whole-bunches. The growing season was easy, but warm and dry. Some vines in the thin stony soils of Auxey-Duresses suffered, but for most of them there was enough rain – a smattering every three weeks or so – to see them through to the harvest, which began on 29th August, finishing on 5th September.
The wines are polished and charming, with excellent terroir definition.
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£54.80 per Bottle
£328.82 per Case
£43.00 per Bottle
£258.00 per Case
Bottle - 75cl
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