A pretty width of aroma, faintly floral, with cushioned fruit. Bright, structural, good energy though. Lacking a little charm today – perhaps it’s beginning to close(?) – and that’s despite being quite tasty.
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Beaune Les Champs Pimont
2008 Ardhuy Beaune Les Champs Pimont
2006 Ardhuy Beaune Les Champs Pimont
2007 Prieur Jacques Beaune Les Champs Pimont
Medium colour. Like the Grèves, this is an interesting blend of barrel and fruit notes – you look forward to the next sniff – yet it doesn’t seem to show any different character. Also plenty of tannin in this wine, but it seems ripe enough so will eventually fade from view. Good as it is, other than the colour I found not enough differentiation between this and their Grèves.
2008 Prieur Jacques Beaune Les Champs Pimont
2008 Prieur Jacques Beaune Les Champs Pimont
2006 Bichot Albert Beaune Les Champs Pimont
Medium cherry-red. High-toned perfume of crunchy cherry-fruit eventually a little creamy oak. There is good width and an edge of fat to the texture too. A creamy vanilla-oak barrel note runs through the core of this and into the mid-palate. Medium, slightly peppery tannin and a good length. For my taste this needs a little cellar time to both round out and to reduce the barrel flavour, but it’s ripe, sweet and tasty already today, and was a very good price.
2007 Ardhuy Beaune Les Champs Pimont
Medium colour. The nose shows a little ‘brown sugar’ oak (Carel – “the oak is Alliers; more for aromatic character than structure”) over finer red berry aromas. Good fat, but the acidity is very well judged. The tannin stands a little proud, but the wine was only bottled the previous week. It finishes very well, and with only a trace of oak character.