Michel Gaunoux Pommard Grand Epenots 1er Cru 1999 1x75cl

96 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 1999 Pommard 1er Cru Les Grands Epenots is a stunning young wine that is still a decade away from full maturity but is already giving the full measure of its potential, exhibiting a superb bouquet of dark chocolate, ripe wild berries, rich soil, summer truffles and grilled ceps. On the palate, it’s full-bodied, multidimensional and concentrated, with incredible depth and dimension at the core, framed by rich structuring tannins and concluding with a long and still youthfully chewy finish. This is the most powerful and broadest shouldered wine in this vertical of Grands Epenots, and it’s a magical bottle in the making.

94 points Allen Meadows 
This beauty is finally beginning to display some development as the perfumed and complex nose mixes both primary and secondary earthy red berry fruit, underbrush and a touch of animale character. The generous and quite fleshy medium-bodied flavors possess excellent volume as well as buckets of dry extract that almost render the firm and ripe tannins invisible on the massively long finish. Wow, this is a stunner of a wine with still plenty of upside potential remaining though with air this could be approached with pleasure. Tasted on multiple occasions with consistent results.

18/20 points Jancis Robinson
Outer quote mark Mid-ruby. Much beefier Pommard than de Montille’s Rugiens. Only medium weight. Easy, round, full and positive. Excellent balance. Correct and reassuring. Quite a traditional wine; very clean and bumptious.

95, Burghound

A perfumed, complex and mostly still primary nose offers up earthy red berry fruit, underbrush and a touch of animale that can also be found on the generous and quite fleshy flavors that possess excellent volume as well as buckets of dry extract that almost render the firm and ripe tannins invisible on the massively long finish. Wow, this is a stunner of a wine with still plenty of upside potential remaining.