Pavelot (Pernand) – 2018

Update 2.1.2021(31.12.2020)billn

Lise Pavelot 2020Tasted in Pernand-Vergelesses with Lise Pavelot, 24 November.

Domaine Pavelot
6, rue du Paulant
21420 Pernand-Vergelesses
Tel: +33 3 80 26 13 65
www.domaine-pavelot-pernand.com
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There’s one new appellation – a Pernand En Caradeaux Blanc – since I last visited the domaine, way back in 2012. They have been producing this since 2014. They have 2 hectares of Pernand-Vergelesses villages. With the exception of their Bourgogne Aligoté, there are no regional wines here, everything, save their Corton-Charlemagne wears either a Pernand or Pernand 1er cru label.

We tasted 2018s as the 2019 wines were in tank and not ready to taste. As for 2019, Lise says “We are happy with our vintage, there were no major problems. It was another dry summer and the volume was good what more can I say?

The wines…

A good range of 2018s – occasionally excellent – and none of the vintage excesses are to be found here. Thank-you Lise.

All cork for the wines. Just the half bottles are sealed with DIAM

We start with the reds:

2018 Pernand-Vergelesses
This has a good volume of aroma and it’s quite forward too, darker fruited. It’s interesting to note the extra spice and darker fruit of the vintage in the middle of a 2019 campaign. Wide, well put together, a base of fine-grained tannin but with a lovely texture. Wide and long. That’s a tasty wine

2018 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Les Fichots
Plenty of colour of-course. More freshness to the width of aroma – a suggestion of more floral notes too. Silkier, a little more drive and direction to this wine too. Growing wider, a base of tannin but practically no grain. Wide and friendly finishing. That’s a very tasty wine…

2018 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er En Caradeux
Here the most overtly PV – a deep, almost inky style of nose, faintly floral accented, that’s a lovely wine. More a wine of width than linear, supple, mouth-watering, more complex, still a darkness of fruit, but this is so mouth-watering and tasty, slightly chocolate impression in here too. There’s tannin but texturally not a grain and there’s little dryness. That’s an impressive wine. Very tasty and with tons of balanced concentration. The finish a good one!

2018 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Les Vergelesses
The nose needs a little coaxing but what a nose to wait for – complex, floral, engrossing – that’s really super. Sleek, in shape more like the Fichots than the Caradeaux – direct, almost mineral and linear, beautiful energy and flavour complexity – the purest so far and absolutely delicious – excellent wine.

2018 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Ile des Vergelesses
Smaller stones, less clay, more limoneux in the Ile versus Les Vergelesses – and the small higher altitude difference. Plus they found the foundations of a Gallo-Roman building, circa 3-4 century, when taking out vines in 2010/2011 for replanting in 2013. So now they know why they sometimes find pottery in their vineyard!
Deep colour. A deeper nose, a silky nose but tighter than the last. More mouth-filling volume, a little more tannin, more complex too but in the sense of spices rather than fruit and flowers. Intriguing, long, very tasty wine. It’s more grand cru from the shape and structure but today I’ve a preference for the Aux Vergelesses… Finally, the last drops in the glass start to offer up some of their secrets – hinting at fruit and flowers…

Their parcel of red Corton they decided to replant after the frosts of 2016. This was done in two parts 2018 and 2019 – so 2020 will be the first vintage for that first planting. The vines are actually in Charlemagne, but following family tradition, they are keeping it planted to red.

Les Blancs

2018 Bourgogne Aligoté
All from Pernand
A deep nose, quite vibrant, slightly mineral and floral combined. Ooh – that’s got a pretty good acidity – wide, mouth-watering. And with floral and saline accents which make you want to take another sip. That’s a fine finish!

2018 Pernand-Vergelesses
Three parcels but mainly 2 sectors.
A big, punchy nose, more flowers and minerals here. Mouth-filling. The energy is fine, the texture too. A depth of middle flavours that suggest some oak. But long and tasty wine, particularly in the finish – it’s super here.

2018 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er En Caradeaux
Planted in 2010 and 2011. First vintage 2014 but none in 2016 due to the frost that year.
An elegant mineral-floral perfume. Extra mineral and mouth-watering in the mouth – cool fruit, almost juicy, the barrel less visible. Missing a little middle impact, if not actual length, but all that comes before is excellent.

2018 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Sous Frétille
Multiple parcels, the majority facing Beaune on the hillside, oldest vines are about 80 years old.
The nose has weight and, in this case, plenty of oak – but plenty of perfume too. In the mouth, wide, complex, certainly mineral in style. The middle flavours have some oak impression like the first villages, today. Really a wine of fine clarity and one which will further improve as the oak fades. The finish is completely lovely…

2018 Corton-Charlemagne
Multiple parcels, 3 high parcels in Pernand and another ‘just over the border’ in Aloxe in Le Charlemagne.
That’s a very perfumed nose, slowly becoming a little caramel. 55% new oak here. Ultra-wide, a texture with faint tannin, very mineral – there’s much clarity here, despite a similar style of oak to the last – you should wait at least three years for that to fade, but the mouth-watering flavours here are simply excellent – that’s a lovely wine, with a finish that slowly lingers, salivating, practically a little citrus minutes later!

We discussed recent vintages that are drinking well, and we both agreed on 2013 for whites – so Lise went in search:

Lise on 2013:
A vintage with hail – it was a big storm. Although the spring was cool and rather wet, and we had to wait until June for the sun to show better, the year was going well until the end of July then came the storm, then followed an autumnal August. The September weather was better, without that probably no harvest! We harvested at the beginning of October, and it had been a long time since we had harvested entirely in October. Still, we had to assemble all 1er cru reds except Ile des Vergelesses into one single cuvée. Truly a memorable year.

2013 Pernand-Vergelesses Rouge
Less colour. Deeply aromatic, lots of attractive leafy maturity. Mouth-filling freshness, leafy flavour profile too – but not negative. The structure is still relatively forward – it’s less mature than the aromas and flavours. But round, tasty and highly drinkable wine – the finish is particularly tasty.

2013 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Ile des Vergelesses
Also a relatively pale colour. A deeper nose (again) more complexity and a little more perfume to the maturity of sous-bois notes. More mouth-filling than the villages – plenty of structure still, but a little more rounded and no grain. The finish like the last is broad, tasty and has an additional floral component in this case.

2013 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Sous Fretile
That’s quite nice! A little spiced pear and a depth of attractive aroma. Wide, clean, younger than the reds is the style, an impression of tannin at the base. A wine that’s still young and has a certain finesse too – simply excellent – yum!

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