Pommard Village 2004 Claudie Jobard

Medium-plus cherry red. The nose is sweet ripe and only with time the faintest trace of cedar. Wide and friendly, the aromatics are sweet oak with a creamy edge to the red fruit. One sip and you’re hit by fresh, crunchy red and black fruit and grainy tannin - quite the extrovert.

Pommard is sandwiched between the appellations of Beaune to the north and Volnay to the south. North of the village is the largest ’sweet-spot’ of premier crus, bordered by the village appellation - the same to the south, it’s just a smaller number of 1er cru hectares to the south. Set into the hillside of the Montagne de Pommard there is a reasonable east, south-east facing slope for all the vines covering altitudes between 240 and 380 metres above sea-level.

The lower lying vineyards have deeper soils of ancient alluvium. At the mid-slope are the well-drained clay-limestone soils that mark and provide the characteristic muscularity of Pommard. Towards the top are Jurassic (Oxfordian) marls and brown soil. In places the brown is turned to red by the presence of iron - often assumed to provide a little more rusticity and gaminess to the wines.

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