Marchand & Tawse / Pascal Marchand Pommard 1er Cru Les Épenots

GC Grand Cru lunch. Drank in Zalto Burg glass. Tasted blind. Appearance pale intensity, ruby colour with garnet edge. Slight cloudiness. Thin legs. Nose is clean, medium intensity, with aromas of green herbs ?herbal stems, savoury earth, stony minerality, buried fading dark red cherries. Developed. On the palate, dry, medium+ acidity, medium- alcohol (12.6%), medium tannins, medium body. Medium flavour intensity, with flavours of fading dark red cherries, savoury earth, mint green, herbs, herbal stems, indistinct stony minerality. Medium+ finish. …

Gentle ruby. Gamy quality to the nose with more black than red fruit. Medium weight. It strikes an interesting balance between a very rugged, typical Morey front end followed by a very refined, soil filled finish. Not forbidding at all to taste now, but should show even better with another few years of aging-I quite liked it today.