Domaine Machard de Gramont, Pommard Premier Cru, Clos Blanc

Fragile cork. Appropriate color. Some wet leaf and forrest floor aromas but still sweet red fruit behind. Lushly textured on the palate with similar notes of sousbois overlaying succulent and complex dark cherry fruit, which is the best feature of this wine. Still adequate acid. Classic "Pommard of old" tannins - big, not subtle but fully ripe in 1990. Still recognizably Pommard with a lot of fruit and a fairly straightforward presence on the palate that holds nothing back. Not …

Eeeks, 7 years goes by fast. This cork was in much better shape than the last btl but still came out in a couple pieces. The wine is holding but in decline. Polished black cherry fruit, cherry liquor with alcoholic heat in the midsection, decaying leaves on forest floor, and mushrooms. There is a volnay like texture to this now. I love old Burgundy and 90s have continued to surprise me with their staying power. Certainly the remaining bottles out …

Cork was molded as could be. The wine was lovely. A mature nuanced red burg. Lovely light cherry fruit and subtle underbrush, minerals, and flowers. Really pretty and much better than expected. A thinking man's wine.