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2018 Domaine Ponsot, Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru
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Start Your Wine Collection with 2018 Domaine Ponsot, Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru
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Grand CruThe highest and most respected classification for a French vineyard
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18.6% of All Producers of Fine WineCritics Scores
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2018 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru is quite shut down now that it's in bottle, unwinding to reveal aromas of dark berries, cherries, smoked meats, spices and violets. Full-bodied, rich and layered, it's deep and concentrated, with powdery tannins and an introverted profile. This will demand and reward patience. Domaine Ponsot started picking on September 20, and winemaker Alexandre Abel reported yields some 35 to 40 below average, with alcohols in the 14s and healthy pHs at around 3.3. Yet while alcohols in 2019 were if anything higher than in 2018, the 2019 wines are more elegant, with livelier fruit tones and less overtly muscular structure. That's not a criticism of the 2018s, however, which we revisited from bottle, confirming that they are wines that will require patience: interestingly, the most put-together of the range was the Clos de la Roche, a cuvee that was bottled last, in July 2020, and which certainly seemed to have profited from the longer elevage.
Burghound.com
Reduction is enough to bury the fruit today. Otherwise there is good verve and freshness to the succulent, round and utterly delicious medium-bodied flavors that immediately tighten up on the mineral-driven, detailed and very serious finale that flashes outstanding length. Patience strongly advised, indeed it would not surprise me if two decades were necessary for this to fully shed its tannic carapace.
Burghound
Reduction is enough to bury the fruit today. Otherwise there is good verve and freshness to the succulent, round and utterly delicious medium-bodied flavors that immediately tighten up on the mineral-driven, detailed and very serious finale that flashes outstanding length. Patience strongly advised, indeed it would not surprise me if two decades were necessary for this to fully shed its tannic carapace.