Wine Advocate: 92 Points
The 2017 Pommard 1er Cru Les Grands Epenots is showing beautifully from bottle offering up a deep bouquet of ripe berry fruit plums and cherries mingled with soil tones and hints of blood orange. Medium to full-bodied with fine mid-palate volume and powdery structuring tannins this is a lively elegant Grands Epenots that has realized the potential it showed in barrel. As I wrote last year it's always a pleasure to visit Domaine Pierre Morey one of my favorite addresses in the Côte de Beaune. This year I revisited the 2017s from bottle and found them showing superbly confirming all the promise they showed in 2018. And from barrel the young 2018s were beautifully balanced displaying considerable charm. For once the cellars are full and Anne Morey made no secret of the fact that the vintage is characterized by abundance; but all the 2018s are nicely concentrated and classically proportioned and I suspect they will be open for inspection sooner than the serious youthfully introverted 2017s. As usual long élevage is the order of the day here and most of these wines won't be bottled before the spring.
Vinous: 90-92 Points
The 2017 Pommard Les Grands Epenots 1er Cru which is raised in around 50% new oak has an attractive quite powerful bouquet with summer fruit cranberries and pressed iris aromas. The palate is dominated by black brambly fruit just light tobacco notes under the surface with a grippy marine-influenced finish. Very fine a little stocky in style but it deserves time.
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