2001 Comte Armand, Pommard Premier Cru, Clos des Epeneaux 1x750ml

Vinous 91

The 2001 Pommard Clos des Epeneaux 1er Cru is showing better than the previous bottle I tasted. There’s plenty of dark berry fruit on the nose with forest floor and incense touches. Supple tannins on the palate frame the pliant red fruit, lightly spiced and perhaps just missing the essence of Pinote towards the finish. Otherwise, this is a perfectly decent Pommard that is just missing a bit of elan. Tasted at the Clos des Epeneaux vertical in London. [Neal Martin, 26/04/2023]

Anticipated maturity: 2023-2035

Robert Parker 89

"The 2001 Pommard 1er Cru Clos des Epeneaux is entering its plateau of maturity, offering up a complex bouquet of dried cherry, espresso, orange rind and spice, framed by cedary new oak. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, revealing a good core of sweet, degraded fruit but also a rather firm and austere chassis of tannin that asserts itself on the grippy finish. While some might say, ""that’s just Pommard,"" it’s the quality of the tannins rather than their abundance that concerns me, and as the wine is already quite tertiary, I wonder whether time is on its side. 2001 was still early days in Benjamin Leroux’s tenure here, and this certainly seems appreciably more oaky and extracted than the wines he was making by the late-2000s." [William Kelley, 28/02/2018]

Anticipated maturity: 2018-2025