Tasted in Poinchy with Denis Pommier, 07 March 2023.
Domaine Isabelle & Denis Pommier
31 Rue de Poinchy
89800 Chablis
Tel: +33 3 86 42 83 04
www.denis-pommier.com
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Denis on the 2022 vintage:
“It’s a nice vintage here, generous too, with a good saline finish. The wines are currently slightly serious but there’s time – I’m preparing the PC for bottling and it’s already delicious.”
Denis on the 2021 vintage:
“On average we made 25 hl/ha – which isn’t much but it’s still more than we made in 2017… It was 15 hl/ha for the Petit Chablis – 30 for the Chablis – we could heat some of the 1ers so 35 hl/ha there. Clearly, it was the Petit Chablis that was the worst hit – okay I have some pinot near Beine – we didn’t harvest there! so overall it’s about half a harvest here. Working orgainic you don’t see much oïdium – but in 21 there was plenty – it was under control but normally I have none – June was very cold…”
The wines…
A good range from the team here.
Use DIAM here:
2021 Petit Chablis Hautérivien
From the commune of Villy in the main. Bottled in December 22 – the last bottling.
A vibrant nose almost a little balsamic. Direct, concentrated, plenty of structure – ooh this is very attractive in the mouth. Mouth-watering in the finish – very good!
2021 Chablis
About half is Portlandian, vinified in tank just like the PC. Also the last bottling – done in January.
A nose of larger scale – a little floral in the higher tones. Broad again – lots of depth to this citrus flavour – a lot of green citrus style – but no gentian. Mineral, saline and strong finishing. That’s really good again – nice dimensions of finishing flavour too.
Now tank samples with bottling imminent:
2021 Chablis Les Reinettes
30-year-old vines on Kimmerigian – the end of Cote de Lechets looking towards Poinchy. This has been recently filtered for bottling in 1 month.
A width of more golden fruit freshness. Mouthfilling – there is structure and intensity again – more yellow fruit in style – and extra style it has too in the finishing flavour – a hint strict but finer at the same time. Lovely
2021 Chablis Croix au Moines
Over 55-year-old vines a massale selection with 25% seeing barrel elevage – not yet bottled.
A calmer, wider yellow citrus nose. Fuller in the middle still a juicy wine of energy and plenty of finishing salinity – excellent villages!
2021 Chablis 1er Troismes
Prior to 2016 the domaine labelled this as Beauroy. A small January bottling – the main bottling will be in the next weeks.
A large nose, a hint of cream surrounds a mix of fruit and flowers at the core of the wine. Sweeter, wider, a little more intense too – the finish slowly less sweet and more direct. Saline again. Very good!
2021 Chablis 1er Côte de Lechets
Bottled 1 month ago for this sample. ‘Always the most mineral of our range’
A lovely clarity to this nose – yellow citrus and wide – excellent. A little structure and plenty of energy – a flavour that’s mobile and bubbly – that’s super–vibrant finishing too – I think this is excellent!
2021 Chablis 1er Fourchaume
A nose that slowly broadens in the glass – clean, pure, and classic, showing the slightly golden citrus of this cru. Here is an extra depth to the flavour and it’s growing very wide too. Slightly round at the edges – a slight framed of tannin too. The last flavours of small citrus bitters. I think this excellent too but in a very different style!
Did someone say pinot?
2021 Irancy
Not bottled – it will be done in another month. Bought grapes but did harvest – ‘and we had a lot of triage to do.’
Modest colour. The nose is open and airy – slight barrel cream – but only slight. I like the shape of this – an architecturally shaped wine – clean, complex, very modestly framed with a small grain of ripe tannin. Easy finishing with a bit more cherry-stone complexity – I would wait a year or two – it’s a refreshing and tasty wine – light wine too – but the (admittedly) small creamy note distracts me today.