Bachelet-Monnot Pommard 2023

Bachelet-Monnot Pommard is drawn mostly from Chanlins, a village lieu-dit high on the Volnay border at around 400 metres.

Pommard is the broad-shouldered neighbour of Volnay in the Côte de Beaune, though its higher, stonier sites give something lighter on its feet than the appellation's reputation suggests. The greater part of this wine comes from a 0.25-hectare parcel of 40-year-old vines in Chanlins, just above the premier cru of the same name; it came to Alex and Marc Bachelet from their father, who sold the fruit to négociants until 2011. At 400 metres it is one of the highest and steepest vineyards of the Côte de Beaune, and with chalk-rich, stony soils it produces a pretty, mid-weighted wine that reads more like Volnay than classic Pommard. A quarter of the blend comes from La Vache, sited above Les Rugiens-Hautes. The wine fermented with 50% whole bunches and was raised with 30% new oak.

Approachable from three years and good for a decade. Serve at 16-18°C with roast duck, braised lamb shoulder or aged Gruyère.

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