A well-defined red, with cherry, strawberry, sandalwood and mineral flavors fused to a linear frame. Gaining support from lively acidity and dense tannins, this feels balanced overall, with a resonant aftertaste. Best from 2026 through 2045. - Bruce Sanderson
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Pommard “Les Petits Noizons” Reviews
Score: 92 | May 31, 2023 | Wine Spectator
Score: 89-91 | November 1, 2021 | Vinous
The 2020 Pommard Les Petits Noizons includes 80% whole bunch. This has a well-defined bouquet, a mixture of red and black fruit mixed with damp loamy aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with chalky tannins, quite linear and strict with bitter cherry towards the finish. Correct and très Pommard. Enjoy over the next decade.
Score: 90 | May 31, 2017 | Wine Spectator
Elegant for the appellation, sporting floral, wild strawberry, wild cherry, sandalwood and bay aromas and flavors. A firm line of tannins runs underneath, showing up for the party on the lingering finish.
Score: 89-91 | December 31, 2013 | Vinous/Antonio Galloni
Sweet red cherries, flowers, spices and hard candy wrap around the palate in the 2012 Pommard Les Petits Noisons. A juicy, immediate wine, the 2012 is likely to offer its finest drinking pretty much upon release. There is a sense of immediate pleasure tha
Score: 88-91 | January 14, 2013 | Burghound
An airy, floral and very spicy array of both red and blue pinot fruit, earth and a hint of the sauvage introduces mineral-tinged middle weight flavors that also possess fine mid-palate concentration before terminating in a dusty, serious and firm finish. This is blessed with ripe tannins and enough underlying material to suggest that 7 to 9 years of cellar time should be amply rewarded.
Score: 89-91 | January 10, 2012 | Burghound
This is the first wine to display any significant reduction but here it's enough to block an evaluation of the nose. The rich, intense and energetic middle weight flavors possess fine precision and plenty of mineral nuances, all wrapped in a firm, mouth coating, dusty and well-balanced finish. Petits Noizons is arguably the best villages level vineyard in Pommard and the quality of this excellent effort merits consideration.
Score: 89-92 | January 1, 2011 | Burghound
Made with 30% whole clusters. An intensely floral and extremely fresh red berry fruit and kirsch nose slides seamlessly into rich, detailed and energetic earth-laden flavors that possess unusually good mid-palate concentration and while the impressively persistent and well-balanced finish is quite firm, indeed even robust, there is no aggressiveness to the tannic structure. This offers terrific quality for what it is and is highly recommended. 2016+